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Nationalism at its most basic level
Nationalism in a nutshell.. pic.twitter.com/qgDRLLVaE6See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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1870 Map of Port Royal, Jamaica showing previous shorelines from before the...
“1870 Map of Port Royal, Jamaica showing previous shorelines from before the 1692 quake (blue) and after (red)”See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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Can an eruption at one volcano trigger an eruption at another nearby volcano?
There are a few historic examples of simultaneous eruptions from volcanoes or vents located within about 10 km of each other, but it's very difficult to determine whether one might have caused the...
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Video - How Snow Peas Help Rwandan Families
Rwanda's farmers are using better irrigation and connecting to private distributors to grow snow peas for the world.See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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Short-read - How inequality affects growth
Economists say that some inequality is needed to propel growth. Without the carrot of large financial rewards, risky entrepreneurship and innovation would grind to a halt. In 1975 Arthur Okun, an...
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Guardian - The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the...
In terms of scale, we are now living through one of those brief, rare episodes in Earth history when the biological framework of life is dismantled. It is in every sense a tragedy – but, in itself, it...
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Documentary - First Peoples
See how the mixing of prehistoric human genes led the way for our species to survive and thrive around the globe. Archaeology, genetics and anthropology cast new light on 200,000 years of history,...
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Graphics - If the world were 100 people
Mathijs Booden's insight:I hasten to add that I haven't double-checked the numbers.See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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A geographic take on Cecil the Lion - How outsiders are complicit in African...
As a well-educated and successful dentist, Palmer likely knew that he was bending the law when he chose to hunt a rare animal in a country with a weak and corrupt government. He chose not to go to...
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Eruption of Piton de la Fournaise - 31 july 2015
Le Piton de la Fournaise est entré en éruption ce vendredi 31 juillet 2015. L'occasion pour Imaz Press Réunion de réaliser des images aériennes du spectacle ...See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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Graphic - Australia's carbon footprint
“WE ARE not leading but we certainly aren’t lagging,” declared Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, of his country’s pledge on August 11th to cut...See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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Satellite images turned into... carpet maps
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What is El Niño?
Spanish for “little boy”, El Niño was so named by Peruvian fishermen in the 1600s in honour of the Christ child. They observed that periodically around Christmastime, Pacific waters grew warmer and...
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The Guardian view on geography: it’s the must-have A-level
A star is born. Geography, for so long a Cinderella subject, the easy option for students who found physics or chemistry too daunting, is soaring in popularity. According to the Royal Geographical...
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Europemapper - The social atlas of Europe
A Social Atlas of EuropeSee it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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‘We’ve never had it so good’ – how does the world today compare to 1957?
During a speech in 1957, Prime Minister Harold MacMillan declared "most of our people have never had it so good”. Now, more than half a century later, are we...See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Earthquakes
Iain Stewart looks at some of the world's most dramatic earthquakes and reveals the stories and science behind them. In seconds, these powerful forces of nat...See it on Scoop.it, via Classroom geography
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