Blog and updates
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13 Oct 2022
EastEnders Under Water!
Last night's EastEnders credits showed how melting ice caps may impact London with the Thames bursting its banks. The eye-opening scene aired as a way to mark the final episode of Frozen Planet II,...
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12 Oct 2022
Does it Matter that COP27 is in Africa?
An interesting enquiry for your class ahead of this year’s international climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, might be ‘Does it matter that this year’s COP is in Africa?’.
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11 Oct 2022
Geography in the News: COP27 to be sponsored by Coca-Cola
Plastics campaigners call it ‘astounding’ that one of the world's top polluters is sponsoring such a key climate meeting. Which asks the question - is this just a case of 'greenwashing'?
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10 Oct 2022
Geography in the News: Climate change: World aviation agrees 'aspirational' net zero plan
The world has finally agreed on a long-term plan to curb carbon emissions from flying. At a meeting in Montreal, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), pledged to support an...
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6 Oct 2022
Geography in the News: Four women to run the world's most remote post office
Four women have been selected to run the world's most remote post office and count penguins in Port Lockroy, Antarctica, after beating more than 6000 applicants to the post.
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4 Oct 2022
Is it Doom and Gloom, or Time to Act for Conservation?
You might be forgiven for thinking conservation is a doomed enterprise, in the twenty-first century. But recent science provides us with fresh hope and as a geography teacher, teaching about...
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4 Oct 2022
Podcast recommendation: Reasons to be Cheerful - David and Goliath
This brilliant episode of Reasons to be Cheerful speaks to the law firm that's taken collective action for over 200,000 victims in Brazil affected by the Mariana Dam collapse in 2015
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3 Oct 2022
Geography in the News: Finland wants to transform how we make clothes
Around the world, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is created each year, and this figure is set to rise to more than 134 million tonnes by 2030, if clothing production continues...
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30 Sept 2022
Geography News Quiz: 30th September 2022
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
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27 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: Ebola Cases Surge in Uganda
We all remember the devastation of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa - the death toll and the impact on overall development as it ripped through Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, killing...
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26 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: Nigerian Boko Haram crisis
Nigeria is a country of contrasts - largest and fastest growing economy in Africa, but most of the wealth is concentrated in the South - in the north of the country economic growth is far less...
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23 Sept 2022
Geography News Quiz: 23rd September 2022
Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
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22 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: 'Green Gentrification' Could Force Out Poorer Communities
Rewilding sounds like a good thing, but urban nature restoration projects must be handled carefully to avoid pricing out locals, the Zoological Society of London warn.
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20 Sept 2022
Making A Meal Of Single-use Plastic
Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful thing when it comes to the environment, isn’t it? When the David Attenborough's Blue Planet II pointed a camera at ocean plastic pollution in 2017, it was a...
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20 Sept 2022
TV recommendation: Simon Reeve's South America (Episode 2)
This is a brilliant episode and a superb way to update your Amazon and Rio case studies!
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16 Sept 2022
Geography News Quiz: 16th September 2022
We're back for the start of a new term! Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
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15 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: Eating insects can be good for the planet – Europeans should eat more of them
Insects are a nutritious food source that can be produced more sustainably than conventional livestock. While eating insects is common in many world regions, in western cultures it is more likely...
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14 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: Rare ‘triple dip’ La Niña declared
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has announced that the weather phenomenon La Niña has formed for the third consecutive year in the Pacific. This is only the third time since records...
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