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11 Mar 2015
Under the Dome - Air pollution in China
From time to time environmental films such as An inconvenient Truth come along and make us stop and think about our impact on the earth. The insightful Under the Dome is another such film. This...
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10 Mar 2015
Top Gear low emissions
The following Guardian article Electric cars to cut oil imports by 30% based on a study by Cambridge Econometrics shows the potential £13 Billion benefit of a shift to zero emission vehicles. Some...
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9 Mar 2015
GCSE Geography Exam Technique - Get Your Levels Right
This is my second blog about how to answer questions in your Edexcel A/B GCSE Geography exam.Questions that are worth 6 or more are marked based on the level of detail in your work. Pupils often...
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7 Mar 2015
GCSE Geography Exam Technique - Graph & Map Questions
Hi - I'm the Secret Examiner. This is the first in a series of blogs regarding how to improve your exam technique for GCSE Geography (Edexcel A or B)
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7 Mar 2015
Fracking and its impacts
Fracking has been promoted as the saviour for the energy industry. Is this the case?
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7 Mar 2015
Ideas for green living
Charity "Liter of Light" have introduced a new green solution to the electricity crisis in the developing world.
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4 Mar 2015
Quality of living rankings
The Mercer 2015 quality of living rankings make for grim reading for British and Irish cities. Out of a total of 230 countries Dublin is the top ranked Irish city at 34th. The top ranked British...
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2 Mar 2015
London comes in second for World's most sustainable city
Frankfurt beats London to the top spot in the sustainable cities index. London scores poorly for affordable housing, congestion and declining air quality.
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2 Mar 2015
Increasing enhanced greenhouse effect observed at the Earth's surface
Over an 11 year study, the first observations of an increase in carbon dioxide at the Earth's surface has been made.
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1 Mar 2015
Kibera: Converting a Slum of Despair into a Community of Hope through ASH Schemes
When you don't own the land on which your self-built house is built there's always the threat that you will come home one day to find a bulldozer has trashed your neighbourhood. You have no legal...
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1 Mar 2015
Climate Change by Numbers
It's time to hit the record button: on Monday at 9pm on BBC 4 there is a one off programme looking at the climate change debate in a new way.The show is called Climate Change by Numbers and is...
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23 Feb 2015
Marine pollution affects wildlife
As countries develop, many nations are now using waterways as a dumping ground
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21 Feb 2015
Population: Is Italy (Slowly) Dying?
In most developed economies, mortality rates are falling and people are living longer, on average. But. what happens if the birth-rate falls behind the mortality rate? Can a country slowly start to...
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21 Feb 2015
World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm gets Green Light for North Sea
What could become the world's largest offshore wind farm was given the go-ahead this week by the UK government. Situated 77-130 km off the Yorkshire coast, the Dogger Bank wind farm project...
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21 Feb 2015
What is the Oldest City in the World?
This Guardian article discusses which is the world's oldest city. Several cities claim to hold that title, including Aleppo in Syria which you're sure to have seen on the news being devastated in...
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18 Feb 2015
A River Forms - Time Lapse
This is a great time lapse video showing how a river's course changes over time.
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10 Feb 2015
First straw houses go on sale in the UK
Flimsy? Fire-hazard? Gimmick? None of these, as the first straw-bale houses go on sale in the UK.
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7 Feb 2015
Economist interactive guide to megacities
The Economist magazine has produced an interactive map of the rise (and rise) of mega cities around the world
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