The Trans-Eurasian freight train now arriving in London has your Chinese goods on board
Reports of the death of railways have been - in Mark Twain's terms - rather over-exaggerated. Two reports this week have highlighted an increasingly bright future for rail systems in providing a...
Appropriate support to improve dairy farmers in developing countries
There is a general awareness of how gifts of a goat, or chickens can assist families in rural areas of developing countries. But Heifer International is all about aiding community-based development...
Why would you want to dig into a volcano?
If you've got a surplus of energy, why not export it? If you've got a shortage, why not import it? The solution to that equation is driving plans for a high-voltage undersea electricity...
Demographic Change - Like a Python Swallowing a Pig
How is population change transforming our world? One idea is to think of a python swallowing a pig: a big bulge makes its way slowly down the snake from the head end to the other end
Animated live global weather - and now, forecasts
A new website and web app is allowing geographers to analyse real-time weather conditions as well as forecasts over a week ahead. In combination with synoptic charts, the two together can help...
There's Energy in Those Mountains
A great example of a highly flexible method of renewable energy generation here.
Cornish wind farm hits 25th anniversary and is set for the next 25
The development of renewable wind energy is gearing up for another big boost as offshore wind farms are developed in the North Sea. But the drive to greener energy sources started 25 years ago for...
Surprise figures indicate a fall in life expectancy in the US for the first time in decades
Life expectancy figures released this week in the USA have shown that Americans were not living as long in 2015 as they were in 2014. This fall, for the first time since the 1980s has surprised...
Who wins, who loses from Globalisation?
President-elect Trump has said it’s gone too far. Many of those who voted for Brexit think it damaged British industry; those who voted Remain claim if it’s not there it could damage both the...
Women. Work. Climate.
This is the title of an article by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Climate Change Adaptation group outlining how the global agency is trying to improve the lives of some of the...
New Zealand earthquake disrupts infrastructure and raises the sea bed
Monday's earthquake that hit New Zealand's South Island was - at 7.8 on the Richter scale - significantly more powerful than the 2010 Christchurch one that resulted in 185 fatalities (6.3). Yet the...
The Geographical implications of a President Trump
As the USA and the world absorbs the surprise of a Donald Trump victory in the American presidential election it is worth considering the implications of his policies for matters of geography.
Deepwater Horizon: classifying the effects
The world's worst accidental ocean rig oil release occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 as the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, operating under contract to BP, suffered a catastrophic explosion....
Leicester City as an example of globalisation forces
Leicester City – you know, that small-ish, never-done-anything-much, didn’t-Gary-Lineker-support-them-or-something…. - well they made history yet again last night. They played their first European...
Same - but different: energy issues for China and Japan
Both China and Japan are attempting to cope with rapidly changing energy situations. In China it has been brought about by rapidly rising energy demand in the last two decades, that has started to...
The World's Best Natural Water Slide?
Is this the worlds best natural water slide?
Help and Support for GCSE and A Level Geography Students and Teachers!
If you are studying or teaching GCSE and/ or A Level geography then you’re in the right place!
Five Biggest Earthquakes Ever Recorded
A short video here outlining details of the largest earthquakes ever recorded - makes for a useful lesson stimulus.
13 Incredible Facts about Volcanoes - Lesson Video
This 80 second video would make a great stimulus resource for lessons on volcanoes.
Lesson Starter Activity for Year 7 Geography Class - Trapdoor!
Trapdoor can be used as a bellwork activity (for information on bellwork activities please refer this blog), a starter, a plenary or to deliver new content.