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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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18 Aug 2022
Guest Blog: Game Management - the Geography of the Qatar World Cup 2022
The Geography of Sport is not new. Back in 1992 I wrote the resources for the World Cup in Japan for the Japan Festival Trust, used in schools all over the UK. Here I offer information on the 2022...
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17 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Starving hedgehogs, dry rivers, parched farms - the toll of Europe’s worsening drought
Climate change means that we have seen another heat wave sweeping across the UK and much of Europe this week, with the worsening drought that has serious consequences for energy security, food...
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17 Aug 2022
Video recommendation - How 40 million Australian trees died of thirst
In 2015, about 10% of Australia's vast mangrove forests in the Gulf of Carpentaria mysteriously died. Scientists have now figured out the cause - and warn the forests may struggle to recover in a...
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16 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Story at a Glance - Climate Change (Guest blog)
Geography in the News is an old concept, made new again with every new wall display and resource sheet. But here guest blogger, Stephen Schwab, suggests a new twist - curating articles to create a...
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15 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Can nature keep the waves at bay?
Coastal areas across the US at risk of flooding due to extreme weather and sea level rise are building walls. However hard engineering solutions can have knock on effects further along the coast –...
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10 Aug 2022
Podcast recommendation: The Future of Food - How to Achieve Radical Change with George Monbiot
Farming is one of the most damaging industries in the world. How can we develop healthier, cheaper and less damaging versions of familiar and accepted foods?
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10 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Is there anything green about plastic grass?
Plastic grass divides opinions. But what are the environmental consequences of opting for a low-maintenance clean and vivid green lawn?
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9 Aug 2022
Geography in the News: Sidmouth cliff falls send clouds of dust into air
A series of spectacular cliff collapses has sent huge clouds of dust billowing into the air at Sidmouth, along the Devon coast.
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9 Aug 2022
Video recommendation: Why are there no bridges in East London?
This entertaining and informative video explores why there are no bridges in East London - great for looking at inequality between the poorer boroughs of East London and the more affluent boroughs...
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