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23 Jun 2015
Keeping a Watch on Megacities, Earthquakes...and Crops
Yet another satellite is launched into the atmosphere - but this one should be of huge interest to geographers! The BBC reports this morning on the launch of Sentinel-2a Sentinel-2a has been sent...
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23 Jun 2015
Refugees - Where Do They Go?
The scale of migration caused by refugee displacement is quite staggering. According to a recent report reference here in the NY Times nearly 60 million people (half of whom are children) are...
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22 Jun 2015
What does it take to move mountains? 'Cos Everest just shifted.
Recently released satellite imagery has revealed the earthquake that struck Nepal in April had the power to move mountains. Not just any mountains, but the world's tallest - Mt Everest - slid...
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15 Jun 2015
How long can you expect to live?
The Office for National Statistics has produced a website that predicts your life expectancy, based on your current age and gender http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-long-will-my-pension-... This would...
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15 Jun 2015
From 'Donut' to Dynamism: how the world's cities fell back into favour
In the 1980s and 90s the talk was all about the 'problems' of major cities across the world. Snarled with traffic congestion, scarred by urban violence and the sense of threat, and with retailers,...
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12 Jun 2015
Breaking news generator
The classtools website has added a great headline news generator http://www.classtools.net/breakingnews/#. It can be used by students or teachers to create a screenshot like a 24hour news channel...
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9 Jun 2015
World's leading economies signal an end to fossil fuel use.
The leaders of the world's leading economies, the G7 heads of state, have agreed two major targets for ending the use of fossil fuels in order to limit runaway global climate change. A few days ago...
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8 Jun 2015
MERS kills six, amid fears of a wider outbreak
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has killed six people in Spouth Korea.
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8 Jun 2015
China's greenhouse emisions are on the decline
Within ten years it is expected that Chinese emissions will decrease; helping out the ongoing battle with climate change.
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4 Jun 2015
Swansea Bay tidal barrage plan leaves stony faces in Cornwall
Proposals for the world's first tidal lagoon barrage in Swansea Bay have run into opposition from residents in - Cornwall. The renewable energy scheme, using the difference in height between...
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1 Jun 2015
Gentrification: voluntary in-migration of the rich; forced out-migration of the poor
The revitalisation of Britain's inner cities has been a feature of many urban centres since the late 1980s. London Docklands, Manchester's Salford Quays, Cardiff Bay area - they have all seen a...
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31 May 2015
Measuring Development for yourself
Development means different things to all of us. The OECD has created an interactive website called Your Better Life Index http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org where you can see how your country...
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31 May 2015
China's Polluted Cities - A Photo Blog
This resource in the Guardian looks some at photographic evidence of the pollution evident in China. Souvid Datta travelled around the country to photograph some of those who are worst affected....
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30 May 2015
Germany's Birth Rate Dropping Like a Stone
Germany's birth rate has now fallen lower than even Japan's to give the country the lowest rate in the world. As an example of a Stage 5 country in the Demographic Transition, the birth rate in...
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29 May 2015
Geography blockbusters
Yesterday, seismologist Dr Lucy Jones was invited to the premiere of new earthquake blockbuster San Andreas. She then proceeded to tweet all the accuracies and inaccuracies in the realism of the...
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28 May 2015
Fog catching to reduce desertification
The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on the planet, receiving less than 0.1 mm of rainfall a year on average. Yet the town of Pena Blanca is reducing desertification. This is being...
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24 May 2015
How to Make An Attractive City
What makes a beautiful city? What is it about the cities that makes them most popular with tourists? In this video Alain de Botton offers his six-point manifesto on the need for making beauty a...
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24 May 2015
Stunning 3D Visualisation of a Tornado
I love this from Jim Cantore on the Weather Channel. In his hi-tech studio, he presents a 3D visualisation of how a tornado forms.
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21 May 2015
Fossil fuels slip further out of favour
Two developments in recent days indicate that concerns about climate change are having profound effects on major energy companies.In the first, SSE (Scottish and Southern Electricity) announced...
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20 May 2015
Public health premier league table
Durham University research into public health among residents around football teams highlights regional inequalities in England and Wales. The table was compiled by looking at smoking,...
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