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13 Sept 2022
Podcast Recommendation: 39 Ways to Save the Planet (BBC Sounds)
Year 12s and 13s looking to find out more about practical strategies to address climate change and its impacts might be interested in BBC Radio 4’s 39 Ways to Save the Planet.
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12 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: Three ways climate change is making adventure tourism riskier
Climate change is making adventure tourism more challenging and sometimes riskier, according to travel industry bodies, tour operators.
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10 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: Europe's warm summer shatters records
This summer was the hottest on record in Europe, according to data from EU satellite monitoring.
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9 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: UN sees life expectancy, education and income fall
Decades of progress in terms of life expectancy, education and economic prosperity have begun unravelling since the pandemic, a new UN report says.
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8 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: New malaria vaccine is world-changing
A malaria vaccine with "world-changing" potential has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.
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7 Sept 2022
What’s Ocean Plastic Pollution Got To Do With Climate Change?
I have lost count of the number of younger students who have conflated marine plastic pollution with the climate crisis. So annoying!
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7 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: ‘Is it seaweed – or something more sinister?’
Beachgoers were warned to stay out of the water this summer after sewage was discharged into the sea. Locals at Falmouth Bay in Cornwall tell of their rage at the water companies – and the rising...
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5 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: How Pakistan’s floods are linked to climate change
The devastating floods in Pakistan are a ‘wake-up call’ to the world on the threats of climate change, experts have warned.
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1 Sept 2022
Geography in the News: A Corner of Europe Starts Living With Blackouts Again
Every six hours the power goes off in Kosovo. It’s the first country on the continent to suffer rolling outages as the energy crisis escalates. This is an interesting example for students taking...
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31 Aug 2022
Visualising Climate Change Made Easy: Stripes, Scarves and Home-spun Data
What resources can teachers use to help students get to grips with anthropogenic climate change?
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31 Aug 2022
Video recommendation: Focusing on Sustainable Food (Bloomberg Green)
This episode of Bloomberg Green explores how to stop the negative feedback loop in food production, whereby emissions from getting from farm to plate are heating the world and making it harder to...
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30 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Solar panel sales boom as energy bills soar
In recent years, with the removal of government grants for renewable energy home improvements, we have seen a slow-down in solar panel installation in the UK. But the cost of living crisis and...
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29 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: England's river flow rates at their lowest since 2002
River-flow rates in England have been lower this summer than at any time in the past 21 years, data has shown, and could be much worse next year, with dire impacts on wildlife and the natural...
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26 Aug 2022
Video recommendation: Inside China's mysterious sinkhole
Deep in China's Fengjie County lies a natural wonder that has fascinated experts for decades.
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25 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: South Korea records world's lowest fertility rate again
South Korea has again recorded the world's lowest fertility rate with the number sinking to a new low - at just 0.81 children per woman. The figure has been declining for the past 6 years -...
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24 Aug 2022
A Brummie Sense Of Place: The Contribution Of The 2022 Commonwealth Games
The Games was a great opportunity to showcase Birmingham on the world stage, but remember it hasn't put the city on the map. It was already there, what with being the UK's second city (!) as...
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23 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Diet for a hotter climate - five plants that could help feed the world
Has the world become over-reliant on rice, wheat and corn? What food plants might be more reliable against drought and disease as our planet warms?
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22 Aug 2022
A-Level Geography Entries and Grades for 2022
It was great to see Geography's A-level entries climb this year, with more than 37,000 students sitting A-level Geography exams in June 2022. 'Geography is again one of the top 10 most popular...
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22 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Rivers and Seas of Effluent
Pollution warnings have been in place for dozens of beaches in England and Wales for the last week after untreated sewage was discharged into the sea around the coast, by water companies claiming...
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19 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: The front line of climate change - adapting to survive
The effects of climate change are being across the globe with many communities at the front line facing the greatest threats - be it extreme weather events, higher temperatures or sea-level rise....
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