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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...
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.
UK recycling
We all feel good about recycling but have we ever considered what happens to our waste and where it actually goes to?
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...
The World is unprepared for future disease risk
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board have announced that the World is "grossly unprepared" for future pandemics.
Pledge to reduce deforestation is failing.
An assessment of forest protection by NYDF has expressed concern that targets for protecting rainforests have failed.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Amazonian fires likely to worsen
This is an important interviewwith Professor Martin Wooster on the outlook for Amazonian fires.
A-Level Geography Results for 2019
Here are some data charts analysing some key features of the A-Level Geography results for 2019.
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.
Ebola outbreak causes border closure between Rwanda and DRC.
Recent outbreaks and two deaths in the Congolese border city of Goma led to the temporary closure of the border.
UK's warmest years are evidence of climate change
The ten warmest years on record in the UK have all occurred within the last ten years.
Reforestation of the Kubuqi Desert
The Kubuqi Desert project illustrates how private firms can tackle environmental degradation and revive the economy. James Hall, Reuter's Africa correspondent has this encouraging land restoration...
Arctic wildfires
Areas of northern Siberia, northern Scandinavia, Alaska and Greenland have been engulfed in flames. According to Mark Parrington at the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, they are...
UK plans to restore peat bogs to reduce climate change
The government are interested in a very inexpensive way to reduce climate change.
India launches programme to tackle air pollution.
The “cap and trading programme” aims to tackle the issue in the state of Gujarat.
Proposals are in place to pay farmers who enhance and protect their local environment.