Monday, 12 November 2007
BBC NEWS Climate scepticism: The top 10
What are some of the reasons why "climate sceptics" dispute the evidence that human activities such as industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and deforestation are bringing potentially dangerous changes to the Earth's climate?
Link to BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10
Year 12 and 13 student voice survey
The survey can be accessed using this LINK.
You will be taken to "survey_monkey"
Click Here to take survey
Sunday, 11 November 2007
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been globally evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. This system is designed to determine the relative risk of extinction, and the main purpose of the IUCN Red List is to catalogue and highlight those taxa that are facing a higher risk of global extinction (i.e. those listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List also includes information on taxa that are categorized as Extinct or Extinct in the Wild; on taxa that cannot be evaluated because of insufficient information (i.e. are Data Deficient); and on taxa that are either close to meeting the threatened thresholds or that would be threatened were it not for an ongoing taxon-specific conservation programme (i.e. are Near Threatened).
Link to IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | Search Home
IUCN - The World Conservation Union
The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 83 States, 110 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership.
The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The World Conservation Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1100 staff located in 40 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland.
Link to IUCN - The World Conservation Union
Biodiversity: The sixth great wave
In 2003 the World Conservation Union's Red List said more than 12,000 species (out of 40,000 assessed) faced some extinction risk, including:
- one bird in eight
- 13% of the world's flowering plants
- a quarter of all mammals.
Link to BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Biodiversity: The sixth great wave
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 2003 Water
Water will be more important than oil this century
Two-fifths of the world's people already face serious shortages, and water-borne diseases fill half its hospital beds. People in rich countries use 10 times more water than those in poor ones.
Africa and Asia are already hard-hit by water stress. Increasing populations will create more pressure in the coming decades.
Link to BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 2003 | World Forum | Water
Saturday, 10 November 2007
African migrants die in Atlantic
At least 47 African migrants died of hunger and thirst after their boats drifted into Mauritanian waters.Mauritanian soldiers who discovered the two vessels off the northern port of Nouadhibou also found more than 90 survivors on board, officials said.
British Red Cross Teaching resources
Excellent powerpoint with images
Mystery on " geographyalltheway"
Link to BBC NEWS | World | Africa | African migrants die in Atlantic
UNHCR Against all odds interactive game
n “Against All Odds”, students follow a young person’s flight from oppression in his or her home country to exile in an asylum country. The game is intended to increase students’ awareness and knowledge about refugees – where they come from, what situations they have faced and how they adapt to their new lives.
Link to UNHCR
Friday, 9 November 2007
The World-Wide Earthquake Locator (from Matty Hodder)
The World-Wide Earthquake Locator aims to provide up-to-date information and detailed dynamic maps of earthquakes across the world within a maximum of 24 hours of their occurence. This web site also includes a database of past earthquakes, an animation of the past month's earthquakes, and statistical earthquake prediction.
QUAKE REPORT
Find out about the latest earthquakes around the world
CATALOGUE QUERY
Search our earthquake catalogue, and map your results.
QUAKE ANIMATION
View earthquakes over the past month as an SVG animation.
QUAKE MAPPING
View the lastest earthquakes on a world map, along with extra data such as plate boundaries, faults and volcanoes.
QUAKE PREDICTION
Find out about areas that are predicted to have an increased chance of experiencing a major earthquake.
Link to The World-Wide Earthquake Locator
The World Bank, Mapped.
Mashed up Google Maps with World Bank data to give you a visual entry point to browse our projects, news, statistics and public information center by country.
Link to geo.worldbank.org | The World Bank, Mapped.
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Climate Change online activities - BP Educational Service (BPES)
These four short Flash activities increase students' understanding and interest in key aspects of climate change: climate hot spots around the globe, the greenhouse effect, rising sea levels and deforestation. These activities can be used as stand-alone resources or to supplement the Climate Change resource pack.
Link to Climate Change online activities - BP Educational Service (BPES)
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
British Dam Society
You can find out about:
- some of the different Types of dams
- their Uses
- what Spillways & Outlets do
- professionals who Design dams
- methods of Building them
- how People and Environment are affected by them
- how their Safety is checked
- and Links to other interesting web-sites
Link to British Dam Society
Can Shanghai turn green and grow?
Shanghai has been transformed into a global city - but its rapid growth has produced pollution, traffic jams and overcrowding.In becoming one of the centres of the world economy, Shanghai has grown faster than almost any other global city in the past 15 years.
Link to BBC NEWS | Business | Can Shanghai turn green and grow?
Shanghai: Creating a global city
Shanghai is the ultimate poster-child for the effects of globalisation on cities and regions.China's largest city languished for 30 years as the Chinese economy was closed to outside influence, and the country went through the political turmoil of the cultural revolution.
Link to BBC NEWS | Business | Shanghai: Creating a global city
How much is family life changing?
A BBC poll suggests that three-quarters of Britons are optimistic about their family's future - a much higher figure than when people were asked more than 40 years ago.
There is afamily test. A PDF of the BBC/ICM poll.
There are six photo journals published as part of the BBC's Future Family week, exploring the changing nature of family life.
Egypt, Sierra leone, India, Indonesia, Uk and China.
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