AS Work on Deforestation

Here's the powerpoint I asked you to look at about tropical rainforest deforestation. Please make sure you've read it carefully by next Wednesday!

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Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread'

Here is a story from the BBC website published today regarding the ongoing problems in Antarctica.

This is especially useful for the current Year 9 Antarctica assessment.

AS Field Trip to London Friday 8th February 2008

Here's a hastily put together slideshow of the photos I took today when we were in London looking at contrasting examples of urban redevelopment. Feel free to use any of them!

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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.

Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh

In the last few days, Bangladesh has been badly hit by Cyclone Sidr. There is some really useful information here including interactive guides, photos, video footage and eye witness accounts. This would make a useful case study for GCSE, AS (Climatic Hazards) and A2 (Coasts - the cyclone caused a 5m storm surge). BBC coverage is here and includes information about the management of the cyclone here . There is also an animated guide to cyclones.

Hurricane Dean

Normally I'm a little bit jealous of my sister who lives in the Cayman Islands. However, over the weekend, she and her sons have had to leave the island because of the imminent arrival of Hurricane Dean. It is expected to hit Cayman today, at Category 4, possibly 5 (the Saffir Simpson scale which is used to measure hurricane strength only goes up to category 5!). You can track the progress of Dean here - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#DEAN - it's already hit Jamaica, and is on its way to the popular tourist resort of Cancun in Mexico. The BBC website has a number of links worth looking at, like http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6955163.stm(news story), http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/6952773.stm (eye witness accounts) and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6956117.stm(for pictures). Makes our dismal "summer" that we've had this year not seem so bad!!

List of case studies for AS Human Geography

The document below is a list of suggested case studies for AS Human Geography. You can view the document online or, if you want to print it off, click on the bottom left where you can then download as a pdf or a word document. Don't forget to use the revision stuff given to you on disc. Good luck in your exams! Mrs Nurton

Globalisation of the car industry

Watch this video which explains the globalisation of the car industry



You might also want to look at the link in the earlier post (choose 'Globalisation' from the menu on the right)

AS Economic Activity: Impact of industrial development in China and India

The following article from the Guardian (26/3/07) outlines some of the problems associated with the rapid development in India and China.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2042942,00.html

it is worth reading the full article but some of the main points are below:

• The city of Linfen, China lies at the heart of a 12-mile industrial belt
• For the past 5 years this city of 3.5 million people has been the most polluted place on the planet, bottom of the World Bank's air quality rankings. The New York-based Blacksmith Institute puts it alongside Chernobyl on a list of the planet's 10 most contaminated places.
• Linfen symbolises is the cost of development in China. Its economyis growing explosively, leading to a rapid expansion of the middle classes. This in turn has seen a growing appetite for power - leading to coal fired power stations on a vast scale.
• By 2009 China is predicted to overtake the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
• Seventy percent of China'srivers are contaminated.
• In the southern Himalayas, ancient glaciers are melting.
• Further north, encroaching deserts threaten the livelihoods of 400 million people.
• Linfen is trying to clean up. By the end of this year, the city aims to close 160 of 196 iron foundries, and 57 of 153 coking plants.
• By replacing small, dirty and dangerous plants with large, cleaner and more carefully regulated facilities, the local government in Linfen plans to drastically reduce emissions. Central heating will be provided by gas instead of coal.

Read the full article to find out some of the effects of industrial growth and development in India!

AS Economic Activity: MG Rover

MG Rover's Chinese reincarnation

We have recently looked at the decline of UK manufacturing. Look at the link below for an update on MG Rover

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6484337.stm

You may also want to look at the link below for more details on the Rover collapse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2005/mg_rover/default.stm

Globalisation

Year 12 should have a look at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2007/globalisation/default.stm
a whole section of the BBC news website devoted to globalisation, including the global car industry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/457000/457022/html/default.stm
is very useful!