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Members Nuclear power and energy security How does Japan’s nuclear disaster interconnect with wider global issues of energy security and environmental sustainability? 28/11/2011
Members Arab awakening A look at 2011, the year of the Arab Spring 28/11/2011
Members The Congo Wars: geography NOT in the news Is enough said in the media and classrooms about the world’s worst on-going conflict? 21/11/2011
Members Hello South Sudan What are the geographical challenges facing the world’s newest nation? 3/11/2011
Members Building BRICS Investigating the global power-play of Brazil, Russia, China and India 21/9/2011
Young Geographer of the Year 2011 The 2011 competition winners received their awards at the RGS-IBG in London 21/11/2011
Members Cars: The global business of Britain is back on track What is the secret of this manufacturing ‘comeback’ story, in a country whose economy is often characterized as ‘post-industrial’? 21/9/2011
Thai floods: mystery activity Simon Scoones, an IB teacher based in Bangkok has provided this mystery originally designed for the Freshwater IB Geography option 1/11/2011
Members Two views on the growth of China Analysing the economic, social and environmental impacts of development processes in China. 1/8/2011
Members ARTICLE: Global production networks Investigating the interconnections & ethics of global manufacturing 25/5/2011
Geography in the News User Guide and Login Poster Downland a copy of the new user guide to ensure you and your students are getting the most from the website. 4/5/2011
Japan earthquake and tsunami A collection of links & articles relating to the 11th March Japanese earthquake - UPDATED 22 MARCH. 14/3/2011
Members ARTICLE: The human-induced hazard of Hungary Not all hazards are natural: a red mudflow from an industrial reservoir devastated parts of Hungary recently, killing nine people. 18/4/2011
Members ARTICLE: Irish out-migration The rise of the Irish diaspora 4/3/2011
Members Beyond megacities Introducing metacities, mega-regions, smart cities, instant cities, technoscapes and other new types of settlement growth. 11/1/2011
Members The BRICs are coming: Will Brazil ever arrive? Brazil's economy is thriving, yet real development can be more complex than economic growth. 21/2/2011
Members Teenage time bomb Why do newspapers portray Britain’s teenagers as an endangered species? 6/1/2011
Young Geographer of the Year 2010 The Young Geographer of the Year 2010 awards ceremony in London at the RGS-IBG 22/11/2010
Can GIS help to conserve fossils on the Jurassic Coast? How GIS has been used to enable erosion rates to be monitored along this important section of coastline in future years. 16/9/2010
The natural environment Useful information on England's environment and a chance to have your say 13/8/2010
Teaching resources - Free access These resources provide geographical perspectives on the exploration of identity, diversity and citizenship. 15/7/2010
Members Rain, risk and resilience Are changing rainfall patterns putting the UK at greater risk of flooding? 1/7/2010
Members Brought down to earth The economic impact of Iceland’s volcano on Kenya’s gourmet-veg and cut-flower industry 17/6/2010
Members Baby steps for China How has the one-child rule been modified and how are attitudes towards women changing in China? 1/6/2010
Members Chocolate spread over Through Cadbury we take a look at the issues surrounding the increasingly globalised ownership of big businesses. 17/5/2010
KS3 Interactive Resources A selection of KS3 interactive resources and teaching tutorials 18/5/2010
Members New lectures online A selection of the Monday Night Lecture Series from the Autumn'09 and Spring'10 programme are now available to view in a new format. 13/5/2010
Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano Useful weblinks for finding out about Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano 20/4/2010
Members Credit Crunch Geography Why did the global credit crunch cause Iceland to lose its McDonald’s restaurants? 29/3/2010
Members Energy Update Does the planet have a secure and sustainable energy future? 10/2/2010
Members Geography on the TV Links to geographical programmes over the next few weeks. 24/3/2010
Members Climate Change Update Copenhagen is underway, but 2009 has already been an eventful year 16/12/2009
Copenhagen climate summit Copenhagen in the news - an overview of useful websites, links & resources looking at the climate change and the conference 7/12/2009
Members Consequences of Katrina 4 years on from Hurricane Katrina, what is happening in New Orleans? 30/11/2009
Members World at Risk: Summer 2009 Which natural hazards brought disaster – and to who, where and why? 1/10/2009
Members Fast Food Farmers Investigating the aspect of the ethics of global trade – the treatment of agricultural workers at the other end of our food supply chain. 7/9/2009
Members A Shrinking world Are mobile phones becoming the ultimate 'shrinking world' technology? 7/7/2009
Members South Downs showdown A look at the new National Park designation 25/6/2009
Members 59 Dams: China's climate change challenges Why 59 dams may help to ease China's potential water security issues 15/6/2009
Members Adaptation - the new life line for Bangladesh? Vulnerability and Accountability – why is the UK helping Bangladesh adapt to climate change? 28/5/2009
Members Geography on the TV Links to geographical programmes over the next few weeks. 29 - 09 July 1/6/2009
Members Global Flows How can 'The Box' help us in understanding the global flows of trade? 2/3/2009
Members The great global grape migration What will be the effects of climate change on the world's wine regions? 9/2/2009
Members Should I stay or should I go? Can a trip to the remote wilderness of Antarctica be sustainable? This article investigates the reasons why Antarctica is such a desirable holiday location and the risks these ventures bring 7/1/2009
Members Looking back to the future How can the Quaternary Period help us relate to the present? 1/9/2008
Members The four corners of the food crisis Population growth,rising affluence,energy policy and climate change – these are the “four corners” of the food crisis. 11/7/2008
Members A bad month for hazards May 2008 has brought a cluster of major hazard events 2/6/2008
Members Drastic plastic bag bans Who are banning plastic bags - and why? 1/5/2008
Members Who do we think we are? Why is everyone talking about Census data, family history and national identity? 23/4/2008
Members Going Global MTV Networks The global consumption of music 7/4/2008
Members New resource rush How are climate change and new ocean laws affecting global patterns of resource ownership? 12/3/2008
Members Storm surge Storm surges to threaten London and the SE? 11/1/2008
Members Field studies Where are the major festivals located and what are the impacts they create? 5/11/2007
Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability IPCC 4th Assessment The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II Fourth Assessment 20/9/2007
Members India - Change and challenge for a new superpower India is poised to become one of the new ‘superpowers’, as changes take place. Yet not all changes are equal. 6/9/2007
Members Bigging it up The changing shape of London. How and why is the city expanding? 18/7/2007
Members Supermarket Sweep As Tesco joins the major league, what is it doing to improve its environmental image? 24/5/2007
Members Rocking all over the world How is migration away from Poland impacting on its music scene and the nation’s economy? 2/5/2007
Members Taxing Times What can the Stern Review tell us about our future in the face of climate change? 10/4/2007
Members Out of the Shadows How is a giant mirror bringing light to a valley-floor settlement in the Italian Alps? 15/2/2007
Members Sky's the limit? What is the worry over carbon footprints? 25/1/2007
Members Sink or swim? How is the UK's coastal environment and its management changing? 12/12/2006
Members Retreating rainforest What are the causes and consequences of increasing deforestation in the Amazon? 12/10/2006
Members Upwardly mobile How is the global spread of new technology impacting on different societies and environments? 8/8/2006
Members Drought doubt? Did you know that there is less water per head in the southeast of England than there is in the Sudan? 16/6/2006
Members Global goals? Are you eating, sleeping, drinking and teaching the World Cup? How does our consumption of the global game impact us and others around the world? 9/6/2006
Members Geography in the News round-up A round up of geography in the news with curriculum relevance and teachers' notes 1/7/2008
Members Ice sheet - PVC glaciers Why are scientists wrapping glaciers in plastic? 18/5/2006
Members Feathers flu How did Bird Flu reach Britain? 11/4/2006
Members Talking rubbish Trans-national movement of waste: are we living sustainably? 13/4/2006
Members Family fortunes Why are French mothers being offered cash for babies? Why is Europe worried about population size? 6/4/2006
Members Hog wild Can Boris the boar come to the rescue of woodland? 8/3/2006
Members Kinky boots Are the survival strategies of manufacturing firms influenced by the cultural and political environments within which they are located? 28/2/2006
Members Impossible cities? What are the challenges for growing or changing cities? Is it ‘mission impossible’ for city planners? 22/12/2005
Members Politically correct? Does the UK political map correctly represent you? What does politics have to do with geography and what does geography have to do with politics? 7/12/2005
Members World war who? How did events sixty years ago help shape the geography of Europe and what does ‘citizenship’ really mean? 25/11/2005
Members Crazy paving Why are gardens disappearing and what is the impact on run-off and flood risk? 3/9/2005
Members South Asia quake - two years on Why was South Asia so hard hit by a major quake? What factors determined the impact of this hazard? 20/10/2005
Members Muddy waters Hurricane blues: was Katrina a natural or human disaster? How was the response to Rita different? 30/9/2005
Members Summit fever Is the G8 an effective way to solve the world's problems? 9/7/2005
Volcanic panic How do we know a supervolcano really exists and when will it explode? 15/3/2005
Past papers How can online use of the 1861 and 2001 Census help GCSE geography students? 10/3/2005
Gold dust Dyson is cleaning up in the USA, sweeping across Japan and manufacturing wealth and jobs in Malaysia. But has he left a vacuum in the UK? 8/3/2005
Small wonder As the UK steel industry struggles, Mini moves up a gear - why are these two stories of manufacturing so different? And why hasn’t the Mini been driven overseas? 2/3/2005
Thaw point Is Antarctic ice melting faster? Is the world getting warmer? Is the world changing for the worse? Will we be eating jellyfish and chips? 14/2/2005
Many unhappy returns Are ‘return periods’ helpful when exploring the human response to natural hazards? 21/1/2005
Shock wave Interested in teaching or learning about the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and its effects? 13/1/2005
World wide web How does an Indian spin on Spider-Man reflect changing webs of global interdependence? 23/12/2004
Cloud of controversy Bhopal twenty years on: what are the social, environmental and ethical issues tied up with economic development and globalisation. 20/12/2004
Members Three hurricanes and a storm How does the prediction, management and impact of hazards vary by location? 29/9/2004
Pupil power How is wind, solar and pupil power transforming a remote village in southern Africa? 17/9/2004
Is another world possible? The Third European Social Forum in London 12/11/2004
Sweats and the City Why is city life hotting up and what are the new urban heat island effects? 20/8/2004
Delta Blues Was Spain right to abandon its Ebro River development project? 18/6/2004
Booming giant But can China keep growing? 1/12/2004
Regime change Colorado - how are river processes being managed? 29/11/2004
Re-living Live Aid How are top pop and rock stars helping the people of Darfur in Sudan? 23/11/2004
Flash Flood Boscastle - diary of a deluge 17/8/2004
Tropical taste What does a taste for tropical water tell us about global networks of production and consumption? 15/11/2004
Old news What are the consequences of the UK's ageing population? 22/10/2004
Gown planning Student cleansing; why do councils want fewer students? 2/10/2004
Green games? How sustainable are the Athens Olympics? 12/8/2004
Crude shock What are the causes and consequences of rising oil prices? 17/6/2004
Wrinkle Face How is a dinosaur ageing a tectonic shift? 4/6/2004
Help the aided Why is one kind of aid to Zambia harming local businesses? 1/6/2004
Rainbow Nation 10 years on from Apartheid: How is South Africa really? 19/5/2004
The big picture How do we put the latest climate change warnings for the UK into perspective? 14/5/2004
The new EU Who are the winners and losers of a new geography of Europe? 1/5/2004
Water, water, everywhere What were the water management successes and failures from the winter 2003-04? 31/3/2004
Shack attack Why has one of Brazil’s 'beacon' favelas seen fierce fighting? 20/4/2004
Last orders Why is Guinness leaving London? 16/4/2004
Dam downstream disaster How and why is a dam in China affecting millions of people in south-east Asia? 5/4/2004
Bachelor boys What are the hidden costs of China’s one-child policy? 18/3/2004
It's only water: who cares? Synoptic geography in practice: the Water Framework Directive 9/3/2004
Fair aid Is aid working? 9/3/2004
What killed King Coal? 20 years on: what were the causes and consequences of the 1984 miners’ strike? 8/3/2004
Fat north, thin south Does the UK show a north-south ‘obesity divide’? 5/3/2004
Bird flu across Asia How does the current avian flu crisis in Asia provide a stimulus for studying the geography of diseases? 23/2/2004
Supermarket expansion is a-mezzanine! Why are supermarkets expanding upwards? A GCSE and AS special. 5/2/2004
Great Wall crumbling under pressure Why has two thirds of the Great Wall of China been destroyed? 28/1/2004
Ice Odyssey Antarctica: the geography behind a record breaking trek 2/2/2004
Samsung swansong Why is a booming transnational corporation pulling out of the UK? 16/1/2004
New towns for new times Where are we going to live? Milton Keynes? 12/1/2004
Twin Quakes Why did two similar earthquake hazard events have very different impacts? 9/1/2004
Milan 1 - 0 Kyoto Are talks in Milan and floods in Marseilles changing attitudes towards climate change? 11/12/2003
Rowling back the years How is the creator of Harry Potter helping to conjure up the ancient Dark Forests of Scotland? 1/12/2003
Migrating jobs? How is shifting employment from the UK to the Developing World a sign of economic change? 12/12/2003
Drought? What drought? Given recent heavy rains why are spring droughts being forecast? 26/11/2003
Conifers for the chop How is change in rural land use transforming UK forests? 22/11/2003
Wave goodbye to coastal defences? Should we give up defending the coast from the sea? 12/11/2003
New runway winging its way to Stansted? Is Stansted the only viable option for airport expansion in the South East? 10/11/2003
Italy pays cash for babies How is one remote village in Italy responding to population change? 9/11/2003
Calinfernoia Are devastating wildfires inevitable? Are they really devastating or just what the countryside needs? 4/11/2003
Global changes bring biological hazards to Britain How is global warming and globalisation bringing new hazards to Britain? 29/10/2003
Reservoir dogs future water supply Population growth, climate change, increased consumption: how are future water shortages to be resolved? 26/10/2003
GM foods: the debate What are the issues surrounding GM food production? 28/10/2003
China set to overtake UK The 'sleeping giant' has awoken but is current rapid economic growth sustainable? 20/10/2003
Gaelic tongue on the menu How will the new Gaelic Bill help the Highlands? 11/10/2003
Hurricanes, typhoons and monsoons Are they being reported fairly in the news? 16/10/2003
Grain of truth or GM fudge? Will results of the latest study mean the go ahead for GM crops in the UK? 16/10/2003
Emissions impossible? To save the world from global warming. But why did talks fail? 3/10/2003
That's slum problem Rural-urban migration and globalisation mean slum dwellers could double by 2030: what should be done? 7/10/2003
International Migration and the UK A look at three types of international migration affecting the UK 5/10/2003
Big in Japan Why did a big quake in the Land of the Rising Sun cause little damage? 2/10/2003
WTO and Cancun: Success or Failure? A look at the WTO Summit in Cancun, Mexico. 29/9/2003
The Two Tremors: should we be suprised by seismic shifts in Middle Earth? Why 'Lord of the Rings' location is 'Land of the Quakes' 26/9/2003
Summer 2003: too hot to handle? The European drought of summer 2003 24/9/2003
Izzy puts US in a tizzy How and why is Hurricane Isabel affecting the heavily populated East Coast of America? 18/9/2003
Studentification Are university students displacing working and middle class households? 8/9/2003
Climate change is melting glaciers But why might melting ice lead to a water shortage? 5/9/2003
Renew Towns Why are New Towns getting a facelift? 29/8/2003
Warning too late for Japanese mudslide victims A disaster caused by bad weather or human incompetence? 25/7/2003
Charging scheme really cuts the jam Three months on and is London's congestion charge a success? 6/6/2003
Algerian earthquake kills 1,500 Questions are asked as to why a hazard turned to disaster 23/5/2003
What can stop the urban rot? Investment in deprived urban areas may not be tackling the roots of their decline 16/5/2003
Debate over global warming heats up Warmest year on record raises question of climate change cause 17/4/2003
UK leads the world to green future But are cuts in the steel industry a factor? 17/4/2003
New discovery threatens a seismic shift in LA Study reveals grim new earthquake hazard for Los Angeles 16/4/2003
Think global, act local April 22nd is Earth Day. Tackling water pollution is one major emphasis 10/4/2003
Bonus offered to stimulate baby boom Singapore government attempts to halt slide in birth rate 10/4/2003
Oil fires ignite debate on Iraq disaster Concern arises over the possible firing of Iraq’s oil wells to thwart conflict 11/3/2003
Europeans positive about Renewable future A new survey indicates that Europeans have a positive image of renewable energy. 6/3/2003
Charge gets London moving London's controversial congestion charge gets off to a smooth start 17/2/2003
Cash to help Farmers out of trough New government scheme aims to help farmers recover from foot-and-mouth. 14/2/2003
Congestion Charging Ahead London's controversial congestion charge examined from a geographer's perspective 10/2/2003
Yuletide logging Are you dreaming of a green Christmas? What are the true costs of buying real and artificial Christmas trees? 12/12/2005
Is Britain the Promised Land? An introduction to international migration and the UK 17/9/2003
And now for tomorrow's weather ... How climate change affects the UK 7/2/2003
February: the cruellest month? A look at winter floods in the UK and around the world 6/2/2002
Do Migrants have Right of Entry? Safe 'havens' provide new option for dealing with asylum 6/2/2003
UK Flooding 2000 Causes and impacts of the disaster 6/2/2003
Volcanic Theory goes up in Smoke Scientists have discovered that volcanoes once considered to be dormant may in fact be active. 6/2/2003
New Flood Risk Threatens UK New wave of flooding threatens sea defences 6/2/2003
Brown Future for Greenfields? Greenfield areas are again under pressure from urban sprawl. 6/2/2003
Urban Life is Breath of Fresh Air Government statistics confirm ongoing improvement in national air quality 6/2/2003
Chinese to tax chopsticks Can a chopstick tax help save China's forests? 22/3/2006
Water usage resource Water usage exercise & quiz for Year 9 Students 2/6/2008
World Environment Day What are some behavioural and technological responses to helping the environment around the world? 5/6/2005

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