Mount Everest: Impacts of tourism

"The committee says it brought back 25 tonnes of rubbish from Everest last spring – including 12,000kg of paper and plastic and 11,250kg of human waste."

Useful sources for Edexcel A2 Unit 4 Consuming the Rural Landscape
The Mission to clean up Mount Everest The Guardian
Calls for long term Everest waste management plan - starting with toilets The Guardian

How big was the world's population when you were born?

As the world population fast approaches 7 billion, The Guardian has published this excellent resource where you can enter your date of birth to find out what the world's population was on that date, as well as information on how different countries were growing at that time.

Check it out here! This is what the world population was on my date of birth...

Climate change in Africa

This is one of the compulsory case studies for Unit 1 Global Challenges. The following articles are particularly useful!

BBC News Climate change 'hitting Africa' 28th October 2006
Christian Aid The economic cost of climate change
The Independent Climate change will be catastrophe for Africa 16th May 2006
World Wildlife Fund Impact of Climate Change
The Guardian Climate change will devastate Africa 28th October 2009
Oxfam Horn of Africa drought: Climate change and future impacts on food security
BBC News Climate change 'will dry Africa' 29th November 2005

Geography in the News: Haiti Earthquake lesson

The first of two lessons learning about the earthquake in Haiti. Note: The YouTube logo is hyperlinked to the videos!

Haiti Earthquake KS3 Lesson

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Choosing GCSE Geography

The time to decide your GCSE options is quickly approaching with the options evening on Thursday 21nd January! Check out the PowerPoint below to find out if Geography might be the right decision for you!

GCSE Geography Promotion

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To find out more about GCSE Geography, speak to Mr Gurney or Miss Blackmore.