News

Title	Description	Date
Drastic plastic bag bans	Who are banning plastic bags - and why?	1/5/2008
April 2008 round-up	A round up of geography in the news with curriculum relevance and teachers' notes	1/5/2008
Who do we think we are	Why is everyone talking about Census data, family history and national identity?	23/4/2008
Going Global MTV Networks	The global consumption of music	7/4/2008
New resource rush	How are climate change and new ocean laws affecting global patterns of resource ownership?	12/3/2008
Storm surge	Storm surges to threaten London and the SE?	11/1/2008
Field studies	Where are the major music 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
India - 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
Research Articles	Articles published in Geographical Journals,providing access to new research ideas and debates emerging from academic geography.	1/8/2007
Bigging it up	The changing shape of London. How and why is the city expanding?	18/7/2007
Supermarket sweep	As Tesco joins the major league, what is it doing to improve its environmental image?	24/5/2007
Rocking all over the world	How is migration away from Poland impacting on its music scene and the nation’s economy?	2/5/2007
Taxing times	What can the Stern Review tell us about our future in the face of climate change?	10/4/2007
Out of the shadows	How is a giant mirror bringing light to a valley-floor settlement in the Italian Alps?	15/2/2007
Sky's the limit?	What's the worry over carbon footprints?	25/1/2007
Sink or swim?	How is the UK's coastal environment and its management changing?	12/12/2006
Retreating rainforest	What are the causes and consequences of increasing deforestation in the Amazon?	12/10/2006
Upwardly mobile	How is the global spread of new technology impacting on different societies and environments?	8/8/2006
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
Global goals?	Do you eat, sleep, drink and teach the World Cup? How does our consumption of this global game impact on us and others around the world?	9/6/2006
Ice sheet	Why are scientists wrapping glaciers in plastic?	18/5/2006
Talking rubbish	Trans-national movement of waste: are we living sustainably?	13/4/2006
Feathers flu	How did Bird Flu reach Britain?	11/4/2006
Family fortunes	Why are French mothers like Vanessa Paradis being offered cash for babies?	6/4/2006
Chinese to tax chopsticks	Can a chopstick tax help save China's forests?	22/3/2006
Hog wild	Can Boris the boar come to the rescue of woodland?	8/3/2006
Kinky boots	Are the survival strategies of manufacturing firms influenced by the cultural and political environments within which they are located?	28/2/2006
Impossible cities?	What are the challenges for growing or changing cities? Is it ‘mission impossible’ for city planners?	22/12/2005
Yuletide logging	Are you dreaming of a green Christmas? What are the true costs of buying real and artificial Christmas trees?	12/12/2005
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
World war who?	How did events 60 years ago help shape the geography of Europe and what does ‘citizenship’ really mean?	25/11/2005
Generation lost	Why was South Asia so hard hit by a major quake? What factors determined the impact of this hazard?	20/10/2005
Muddy waters	Hurricane blues: was Katrina a natural or human disaster? Was the response to Rita different?	30/9/2005
Crazy paving	Why are gardens disappearing and what is the impact on run-off and flood risk?	3/9/2005
Summit fever	Is the G8 an effective way to solve the world's problems?	9/7/2005
World Environment Day	What are some behavioural and technological responses to helping the environment around the world?	5/6/2005
Strike two	Another powerful earthquake in Indonesia: hazard forecasters got it right but did they save lives?	30/3/2005
Arctic hole	Why do record cold temperatures in the Arctic mean danger from the sun in the UK?	29/3/2005
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
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
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
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
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
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
Geography matters to carbon emitters	Does a country’s geography have an impact on the amount of carbon dioxide it produces?	1/3/2004
Migrant workers caught in tide tragedy	How does the tragic death of Chinese cocklers underline the new challenges labour migrants face?	8/2/2004
Supermarket expansion is a-mezzanine!	Why are supermarkets expanding upwards? A GCSE and AS special.	5/2/2004
Murray writes himself into history books with Pen	What is the geography behind the record breaking trek?	29/1/2004
Great Wall crumbling under pressure	Why has two thirds of the Great Wall of China been destroyed?	28/1/2004
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
First Geography Online Inset	Using ICT in Geography: More Exploring Place	12/12/2003
Migrating jobs?	How is shifting employment from the UK to the Developing World a sign of economic change?	12/12/2003
Milan 1 - 0 Kyoto	Are talks in Milan and floods in Marseilles changing attitudes towards climate change?	11/12/2003
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
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
China set to overtake UK	The 'sleeping giant' has awoken but is current rapid economic growth sustainable?	20/10/2003
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
Gaelic tongue on the menu	How will the new Gaelic Bill help the Highlands?	11/10/2003
That's slum problem	Rural-urban migration and globalisation mean slum dwellers could double by 2030: what should be done?	7/10/2003
Emissions impossible?	To save the world from global warming. But why did talks fail?	3/10/2003
Big in Japan	Why did a big quake in the Land of the Rising Sun cause little damage?	2/10/2003
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
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
Bush Turns US Green?	New environmental policy outlined in State of the Union address	6/2/2003
Urban Life is Breath of Fresh Air	Government statistics confirm ongoing improvement in national air quality	6/2/2003
New Flood Risk Threatens UK	New wave of flooding threatens sea defences	6/2/2003
Do Migrants have Right of Entry?	Safe 'havens' provide new option for dealing with asylum	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
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