Blog and updates
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25 Nov 2019
Landslides kill at least 29 people in Kenya
Heavy rains around the 18th November led to significant risks for many villages in mountainous areas. The West Pokot region has been most affected.
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20 Nov 2019
An increase in China’s coal use threatens Paris targets
As other nations have cut their coal use in the last eighteen months, China’s increased use, by reviving old power plants and creating new facilities is set to exceed the EUs total capacity.
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12 Nov 2019
Government review says that HS2 should happen
Despite the likely increased cost associated with the completion of HS2; the review states that it should go ahead as there are no alternatives that will ensure the same level of growth to northern...
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4 Nov 2019
Child labour and low pay being tackled in Malawi
Human rights lawyers are bringing a case against British American Tobacco in a fight against the low pay being given to more than 350 children and their families.
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29 Oct 2019
Inga trees could help to reduce the impact of deforestation
Scientists are hoping that local farmers within the Amazon will decide to cultivate these trees rather than sell off their land to large plantation owners. The trees grow fast even on the poorest...
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22 Oct 2019
Elephants die due to drought
55 elephants have been discovered dead close to watering holes they were trying to reach. This latest incident has occurred as a result of the drought that is currently affecting Zimbabwe.
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15 Oct 2019
E-waste plastic is a ticking time bomb
20% of all e-waste is plastic; an issue that has been ignored as the focus has been on single use plastics such as food packaging. However, with 50 million tonnes of e-waste being produced each...
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8 Oct 2019
Deaths increase on the year’s hottest day
On the 25th July, a temperature of 38.7C was recorded in Cambridge. Provisional figures for England and Wales show that this led to an increase in deaths.
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30 Sept 2019
UK recycling
We all feel good about recycling but have we ever considered what happens to our waste and where it actually goes to?
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23 Sept 2019
Are cities bad for the environment?
An excellent piece here from the BBC news web site on the extent to which the majority of UK cities emit less greenhouse gases than in the rest of the country. Some cities are doing more than...
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22 Sept 2019
The World is unprepared for future disease risk
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board have announced that the World is "grossly unprepared" for future pandemics.
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15 Sept 2019
Pledge to reduce deforestation is failing.
An assessment of forest protection by NYDF has expressed concern that targets for protecting rainforests have failed.
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9 Sept 2019
Hurricane Dorian devastates the Bahamas
Head of USAID has compared the damage caused to the Bahamas to that of the destruction caused by a nuclear bomb.
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28 Aug 2019
Meet the man turning cities into giant sponges
A superb short video from the World Economic Forum on the work and ideas of one man in trying to reduce the risks of floods in urban environments.
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26 Aug 2019
Changing Places: The Fall of Prague
This feature from the Observer looks at the downsides of the surge in tourism for the inhabitants of the city of Prague. Strong evidence of over-tourism is changing the sense of place for insider...
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26 Aug 2019
Alaska fires evidence global warming issue
The fires that Alaska faced in July and the current south-central wildfires are evidence that these fires are increasing and are at a greater frequency than at any other time in history.
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25 Aug 2019
Changing places: Why countries decide to move their capitals
This BBC News report and short video looks at plans by the Indonesian government to move their capital sinking from Jakarta to the island of Borneo. Jakarta is literally sinking and more than half...
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24 Aug 2019
Amazonian fires likely to worsen
This is an important interviewwith Professor Martin Wooster on the outlook for Amazonian fires.
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15 Aug 2019
A-Level Geography Results for 2019
Here are some data charts analysing some key features of the A-Level Geography results for 2019.
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9 Aug 2019
Changing Places: Birmingham’s regeneration plans start to pay dividends
Colleagues in the West Midlands might be interested to read this feature from the FT on the regeneration progress being made in Birmingham and surrounding areas.
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