Nick Morgan

attempting to advance the frontiers of geographical wisdom

Bees
Nick Morgan
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‘I could be a bee in a hive’: the real-life Beekeeper of Aleppo on life in Yorkshire
The Guardian - Phoebe Weston
Ryad Alsous, whose story helped inspire the bestselling book, says life is sweet caring for his hives in Huddersfield
Nick Morgan
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Rock of ages: how chalk made England
The Guardian - Helen Gordon
The long read: Swathes of England’s landscape were shaped by the immense block of chalk that has lain beneath it for 100 million years. For a long time, even geologists paid it little heed – but now its secrets and symbolism are being revealed
Cost of sand dredging in Vietnam
Nick Morgan
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The Mekong Delta: an unsettling portrait of coastal collapse
Financial Times - Chris Campbell
Jump to comments sectionPrint this page Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some environmental disasters present themselves over years; others come with a bang — or a splash. The latter happened one day in August, …
Water Shortages- Cape Town
Nick Morgan
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Life after climate change: lessons from Cape Town
Financial Times - Simon Kuper
Jump to comments sectionPrint this page Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the flat where I stayed in Cape Town last month, the bathtub felt like a relic of a lost civilisation. It may never be used again. …
Drones
Nick Morgan
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Drones: Six positive ways they can be used
bbc.co.uk - By Harriet Agerholm
An extended 5km (3.1 miles) no-fly zone for drones has come into force around airports in the UK after reported sightings at Gatwick, Heathrow and Dublin airports in recent months grounded hundreds of flights and left thousands stranded. Previously, only a 1km (0.6 mile) exclusion zone was in …
Permafrost
Nick Morgan
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Permafrost, the climate change time bomb
South China Morning Post - Marco Hernandez,Pablo Robles
Permafrost is a layer of soil, rock or sediment that is frozen for more than two consecutive years. It is commonly found in snowy, high-altitude …