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Disappearing Alps
A must-listen from BBC's Costing the Earth. The permafrost is thawing, the mountains are crumbling and the glaciers retreating. What will be left of the Alps? Great for Glaciation and Carbon topics.
US universities predict a stronger 2018 hurricane season
North Carolina State University and Colorado State University have both predicted through their own independent research that the 2018 season will be even worse than 2017, which saw hurricanes such...
How Cape Town beat the drought
Here is a special long read from the FT on how Cape Town has - for now at least - managed to avoid the very worst of the drought crisis. Cape Town residents more than halved their use of water...
When climate change adaptation can make things worse
Peruvian farmers experiencing unusually high temperatures during the growing season are adapting their behaviour in ways that will intensify the costs of climate change and exacerbate the long-term...
Mount Etna is on the move
Scientists studying Mount Etna; Europe's most active volcano, have evidence that the volcano is moving towards the sea.
Climate change affects women more
When we discuss the impacts of climate change we look at social impacts on people in a general way, yet, there is evidence that women will be impacted by climate change more than men.
Flood management: Mapping flood risk in Tanzania
Technology, development, climate change, information and the provision of public goods, this clip has it all. The World Bank has launched an innovative programme looking at how to best use locally...
Senegalese coastal communities facing waves of change
The World Bank are grappling with the effects of climate change and coastal erosion on the coastline of St Louis in Senegal.
Earthquake proofing a city
"Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do". With this in mind, it is crucial that as cities become larger, more overcrowded and with more complex infrastructure that more is done to prevent...
How do climate models work?
This week Carbon Brief is running a series of articles focused on climate modelling.
How polluted in your street?
How polluted is your street? This BBC article flags up a programme looking at levels of air pollution in the UK, and highlighting the negative externalities that arise, how they've grown and...
Coasts: Dawlish Warren Flood Scheme
Here is a useful account for Coasts studies of the removal of a failing hard engineering coastal defence & installation of new soft engineering (not 'top engineering') with ancillary benefits
Urbanisation and prosperity
Our World in Data provides a rich treasure trove of data for geographers wanting a deeper understanding of the relationships between urbanisation and prosperity.
Planning Africa's Smart Cities
This video looks at the possibilities of countries in Sub Saharan Africa upgrading their infrastructure by using Green Building Councils to help promote smart cities, better able to make the most...
Changing Places - Blackpool: A Forgotten Town
Blackpool rose to prominence with the Industrial Revolution and started to fall behind with the rise of cheap airlines and the structural decline of the domestic tourist industry.
Changing Places: Tilbury and the story of a changing UK
A revealing and memorable video report on Tilbury - one of the most marginal political constituencies in the UK
Continuous Urban Fabric - BBC's New Landscape Map
How much of the UK is continuous urban fabric? Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out!
City size and economic growth - new evidence
This article from VoxEU considers new evidence on the links between city size and economic growth.
Changing Places - Urban Farms in London
This is superb for the changing places topic. The FT visits a cluster of urban farmers whose ingenuity, vision and drive might well be at the cutting edge of a farming revolution.
Swiss cities by population
A lovely, clean elegant map of Swiss cities by population.