Weird Weather

For an unusual weather story, click here!

Nuts!

Here's an interesting film about globalisation and fair trade, as explained by an American peanut! Enjoy!

Divorce rises because of One Child Policy

A news article from the BBC today says that China's divorce rate has risen by over 20% in the last year. Some people suggest this is a result of the One Child Policy which has produced a generation of adults unable to sustain relationships. Click here to read the full article.

Increasing Rainforest Deforestation

Here are a few articles about the increasing rates of rainforest deforestation in Brazil.

Original story

A response

Increasing pressure

Rising Sea Levels and Tuvalu

AS Geographers - this is the link to the news report item from yesterday about the impacts of global warming and sea level rise on the South Pacific island of Tuvalu. There is an article here with lots of interesting links too. This is also relevant for GCSE and A2 students - a useful case study - as well as anyone else with an interest in the environment.

Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet

This is a really useful website that summarises the major physical events that have happened each week. It tells you where there has been earthquake and volcano activity, storms, highest and lowest temperatures and other interesting things, such as a snake invasion in SE Australia this week!

Is your home at risk of flooding?

Find out if your home is at risk of flooding with the maps on this website

A level Geography

From September 2008 we will be following the new AQA A-level syllabus. Click on the slideshow below to see what you will be studying (some of the formatting has changed when Slideshare converted it but you should still be able to read it!).
If you have any questions about this course please speak to a member of the Geography Department.

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Mrs Nurton's year 8 homework

Tuesday 15th Jan - homework 2 set today which is:
'Collect a weather map from newspaper or internet. Identify any areas where rainfall is happening and suggest what type of rainfall it is.'

If you can't remember the work you did on the different types of rainfall this link may help -click here

This is a powerpoint on the internet so you'll need to click through / scroll down to see it (don't worry if the first page is just a blank screen...scroll down, it will appear!)

Mozambique floods

This is topical because we've just started this topic in year 7.
Mozambique is flooding again. Click here for a Newsround guides to floods.

Use the controls at the bottom of the powerpoint below to see some of the images of the most recent flooding. It is likely to get worse!

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China's One Child Policy

Two excellent short films about the impacts of China's one Child policy can be found
here and here

Adopt a granny?

How will Italy cope with its ageing population?
Have a look at the three articles from the BBC below
Italians fear a poor old age

Adopt a granny

Italy's pensions timebomb

How are European countries encouraging women to have more children?

Click on this BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4837422.stm to see how different European governments are encouraging women to have more children.

Click on the link below for more information about Italy paying 10,000 Euros for each child....An article from the Guardian
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/europe/story/0,,1081021,00.html

and here is an alternative way to increase their population