Yr 13: Managing cities - Recycling Links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7378613.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7740592.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7738313.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7499954.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7500962.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7740588.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8242194.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8148125.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/puffbox/hyperpuff/england/7586991.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7542057.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7570332.stm

Atmospheric Pollution

20 years since the Bhopla disaster yet the effects continue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8392267.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster#Long_term_health_effects

Yr12 Health

What affect does the labelling have on the people you use a product and their health

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8392807.stm

Yr 12 rivers: Saudi floods as well

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8384832.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8380501.stm

Yr12 Rivers: Cumbrian floods

The floods in Cumbria are being covered at the following locations

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8376031.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8374616.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8373217.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8385635.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8385057.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8381395.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8378673.stm

Yr13: Malthus again

Worries over the availablility of water and the stepsmbeing taken to reduce this issue.

Forests in trouble

Eruptions

Cool volcano footage from Tonga

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7952030.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7955204.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7954259.stm

and in Japan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7934418.stm

and Erta Ale

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7950639.stm

Geothermal Power
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7810993.stm

Volcano prediction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7735730.stm

AIDS

Effect of religion on AIDS

Yr12 Health

How effective are the attempts to reduce health inequality?

Yr12:Health

To what extent will the pricing of alcohol have on the health of the nation?

Plans
Groups respond

Resource Management

How forests are being affected by global warming and the credit crunch

School in the news

Computer virus

Global Warming

Sea rise 'to exceed projections'

Yr13: Managing City

1 idea on how to improve the urban environment

The problem

Yr12 Health

Efforts to reduce heart disease.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7925421.stm

Great Folkestone Earthquake.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7922285.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7921973.stm

Effects of climate change

Effects of climate change

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7921936.stm

Nothing to report

There have been no relevant news stories lately

Yr13: Incinerators

The defense by Norfolk County Council

Yr12; Health

Health issues linked to rich countries.

Yr12; Health

Health issues linked to rich countries.

Global Warming

Is this sabotage by scientiests who use generate tonnes of carbon dioxide firing rockets into space to mask the problem?

Click to read the story

Yr13: Managing Cities

The result of deprivation in an area can be violence.
See this link for the preperations being made.

Yr13: Managing CIties

One feature of managing cities is that they have a high percentage of ethnic minorities in the population. This presents problems for organisations such as the police and can lead to feelings of isolation and persecution. In extreme cases it can lead to ghettos forming and violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7903004.stm

The problem for the police is that even if they are doing a good job it is the perception of how they are doing that matters most

Yr13: Resource Management

The new Malthus?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_on_sc/af_climate_stranded

Yr13: Managing CIties

What is happening to items that the UK throws away?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7900434.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7900368.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7899227.stm

What effect will this have in the local and global environment?
Is it sustainable?
Do MEDC/LEDC have similar/ different problems?
What effect will it have on the textile industry in Uganda?

Yr13: Resource Management

Is a woman having 8 children sustainable? What if she already she 6 others? Should there be a limited on what medical intervention should do? Where is the limit? Where would you draw the line? What if they are surviving on state benefits? Was Malthus right?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7873890.stm

Yr12: Health

To what extent it the credit crunch affecting the risk of heart disease?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7885312.stm

How predictable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7880302.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7880800.stm

Slumdog Squarepants (sorry Millionnaire)

An accurate portrayal of an Indian slum or an foreign film director using stereotypes and mis-representing the truth?

Wildfires

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7878106.stm

The scale and devastation is huge but in comparison to an earthquake or cyclone they do not kill as many people. Maybe the horror of burning to death sparks a primeval fear.

Wildfires are not uncommon in Australia but there seems to be a lack of early warning system as people died panicking whilst trying to escape. 2 people died in a head on crash as they were speeding away from the fire on a single track road. How come they were both trying to escape in opposite directions. It is possible that new fires started that caught out the emergency services or it travelled very quickly in an unexpected direction. I can't find out any more information about this.

The small tortoise that has been powering the Geography blog has woken from hibernation (ironic considering the temperature) and will try to provide inspiration and knowledge to the students who read it.

Main areas that will be covered Yr13 Population and Managing Cities, Yr12 Health and Coasts.

As always we will also be dissecting human tragedy when it occurs.