IB DP Geography Flipboard Magazine

For all IB DP Geography students and educators! Focusing upon #ibgeog19 'Global Change' + 'Global Interactions'.

By Richard Allaway

UK News
Climate change: Electrical industry's 'dirty secret' boosts warming
bbc.co.uk - Matt McGrath
It's the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned.
4 days ago
Climate
Climate change: 'Invest $1.8 trillion to adapt'
bbc.co.uk - Victoria Gill
Investing $1.8 trillion over the next decade - in measures to adapt to climate change - could produce net benefits worth more than $7 trillion.
September 10
Greenland
Climate change: Greenland's ice faces melting 'death sentence'
bbc.co.uk - David Shukman
Produced by David Brown, Robert Magee, Kate Stephens and Nassos Stylianou. Edited by Paul Rincon and Jonathan Amos.
September 5
Extinction Rebellion
Climate Change and Why We Should Panic voiced by Keira Knightley | Extinction Rebellion
www.youtube.com
September 5
World Economic Forum
The UN has a 17-point plan to save the world. So how's it doing?
weforum.org - Kate Whiting
In 2015, the United Nations wrote a to-do list to address the world’s biggest problems – designed to tackle everything from poverty to the oceans – …
August 20
Recycling
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
The Guardian - Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Westminster council sent 82% of all household waste – including that put in recycling bins – for incineration in 2017/18 One of the UK’s largest waste companies, attempted to ship used nappies abroad consignments
August 17
Desertification
Desertification: what is it and why is it one of the greatest threats of our time?
weforum.org - Robert McSweeney
Desertification has been described as the “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and climate change is making it worse. While the term may …
August 13
Globalisation is dead and we need to invent a new world order
The Economist
Open FutureGlobalisation is dead and we need to invent a new world order A book excerpt and interview with Michael O'Sullivan, author of “The …
July 30
Earth's 2019 resources 'budget' spent by 29 July
rte.ie - RTÉ News
A report has said that mankind will have used up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for all of 2019 by today. The …
July 29
Coal
Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy
Los Angeles Times
Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change,
July 27
The smaller generation to come – worldwide
dannydorling.org
Here’s some good news for the planet: the human population is set to peak and stabilise, not rising much above 9.7 billion, the total that it will …
July 24
On reflection: how the 'albedo effect' is melting the Antarctic
The Guardian - Steven Poole
This week we learned that there has been a “precipitous” fall in Antarctic sea ice since 2014. That won’t increase sea levels, but it’s still bad because white ice reflects more of the sun’s heat back
July 13
World News
Battle with time: Italian towns face demise by depopulation
The Guardian - Lorenzo Tondo in Acquaviva Platani
Small Sicilian villages reflect the shifting demographics of economic migration and declining birth rates The birth of a baby in the small town of Acquaviva Platani, in inland Sicily, is such a rare event
July 12
In drought-hit Delhi, the haves get limitless water, the poor fight for every drop
Reuters - By Mayank Bhardwaj
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India's rich and poor. The politicians, civil servants corporate
July 7
Population
Global population of eight billion and growing: we can’t go on like this
The Guardian - Robin McKie
World Population Day will mark a global crisis – one that is best tackled by more access to birth control, particularly in Africa President Magufuli pulled off an intriguing feat last year when, in a speech,
July 7
'It's getting warmer, wetter, wilder': the Arctic town heating faster than anywhere
The Guardian - Jonathan Watts, Frank Hulley-Jones and Garry Blight
In the world’s northernmost town, temperatures have risen by 4C, devastating homes, wildlife and even the cemetery. Will the rest of the planet heed its warning?
July 4
YouTube
English - Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
www.youtube.com
June 17
How much of Europe does China own?
BBC News - Reality Check team
The European Union has introduced a new mechanism for screening foreign investment. It's widely believed to have been prompted by concerns over China's economic ambitions in Europe. It will allow the Commission
June 15
The man who helped feed the world
BBC News - Tim Harford
In the early 1900s, newlyweds Cathy and Cappy Jones left Connecticut in the US to start a new life as farmers in north-west Mexico's Yaqui Valley, a little-known dry and dusty place, a few hundred kilometres
June 15
The crisis in care
bbc.co.uk
Over 10 months, a small team from the BBC’s Panorama programme documented the realities of how the care system is working in England. Based in Somerset, they followed the stories of people needing care
June 11
The surprising truth about Indian food
BBC Travel - By Yasaswini Sampathkumar
Many of the most famous ingredients used to make typical 'Indian' cuisine aren’t actually native to India. I was in a narrow kitchen in Mumbai, one of India’s most strikingly modern cities, watching an
June 11
Treated like trash: south-east Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish from west
The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen south-east Asia correspondent
For the past year, the waste of the world has been gathering on the shores of south-east Asia. Crates of unwanted rubbish from the west have accumulated in the ports of the Philippines, Indonesia and while
May 28
Empty North Sea gas fields to be used to bury 10m tonnes of C02
The Guardian - Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent to pipe greenhouse gas into vast under-sea reservoir Three of the largest ports in Europe – Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent – are to be used to capture and bury 10m of
May 9
Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882
The Guardian - Jasper Jolly
Landmark follows government pledge to phase out coal-fired electricity by 2025 Britain has gone a week without using coal to generate electricity for the first time since Queen Victoria was on the throne,
May 9
Emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost may be 12 times higher than…
independent.co.uk - Chiara Giordano
Emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost may be 12 times higher than previously thought, scientists have discovered. Permafrost is a mix of soil, rock …
April 17
Which countries will hold the power in 20 years' time?
BBC News - By
Water wars, Europe in decline and a dominant Africa - the BBC's James Robbins on how global power might shift over the next 20 years.
April 2
Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk?
The Guardian - Felicity Lawrence
China’s leaders have championed milk as the emblem of a modern, affluent society – but their radical plan to triple the nation’s consumption will have a huge environmental cost. Beijing-based film-maker
March 30
Mongolia: A toxic warning to the world
BBC News
All over the world cities are grappling with apocalyptic air pollution but the capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst in the world. The country has already warmed by 2.2 degrees, forcing
March 28
Why people in the US south stay put in the face of climate change
The Guardian - Megan Mayhew Bergman
From New Orleans to the Florida panhandle, many have built up psychological resilience after living through years of extreme weather I’ve long felt America, particularly the south, where I grew up, is
March 26