A highly significant development for teachers and students exploring the topic of population change.

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Could being in an underachieving school be defined by where you live?Why are coastal schools at such a low ebb?

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Tiny plastic beads used in face scrubs, shower gels and toothpaste are to be phased out by the cosmetics industry to help protect ocean life.

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According to the ONS, Britain's population will rise by almost 10 million over the next 25 years as numbers grow five times faster then the rest of Europe.

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Monday's 7.5 magnitude earthquake has killed 300 and injured 2000.

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Six months after the 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal, many people are still suffering

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30,000 people face the threat of famine

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The category 5 storm caused much less damage than expected; missing the major Mexican cities when it hit land, yet flooding and mudslides are now threatening to impact many areas.

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At the end of September, world leaders convened in New York to officially adopt replacements for the eight Millennium Development Goals.

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23rd October 2015

Best places to live 2015

Uswitch.com has looked at the best and worst places to live in the United Kingdom with its Quality Of Life Index. Factors included life expectancy, hours of work, disposable income, energy and food...

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So much news time is given to the melting of the ice caps, whilst the melting of permafrost is a huge threat to the world too.

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The Met Office have announced the results of a recent project to name storms that affect the UK and Ireland,

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Whilst the monsoon rainfall has disappointed many in India, causing drought; many in northern India are sufferening from the opposite problem - floods!

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Borthern Philippines has been hit by the slow moving typhoon; set to cause major damage over the next three days.

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The NIMBY-ism (‘not in my backyard’) of local politics leads to a bias against large cities that constrains national productivity growth. That is the central conclusion of a study by Frederic...

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London, Aberdeen, Crawley and Reading feature as the four cities in the United Kingdom with the highest weekly earnings in 2014. The data below is from the Centre for Cities which provides a wealth...

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3rd April 2015

California drought

By exploring the National Geographic's "When the snow fails" students can get a sense of the problems which led the Californian Governor Jerry Brown to order the States first ever water...

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23rd February 2015

Coral bleaching

See attached tweet I discovered for up to date news.

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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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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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