Going Global Edexcel Geography Year 12

"The UK will give £720m to an international fund to help poor nations cope with climate change, the Guardian can reveal."

"You wash with it, you brush with it, you toast it, it's in 50% of what you buy - but what's the real story of palm oil? Use the interactive below to trace the journey of palm oil from the rainforest through to your kitchen cupboard"

"Nicaraguan officials say construction of a $50bn (£31bn) canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans will start on 22 December."

News clips from Channel 4

"In a paper published Thursday in Science, demographers from several universities and the United Nations Population Division conclude that instead of leveling off in the second half of the 21st century, as the UN predicted less than a decade ago, the world's population will continue to grow beyond 2100. (Read "Population Seven Billion" in National Geographic magazine.)"

"Muli coalfield is illegally gobbling up a nature reserve, blasting away alpine meadows and destroying the ecosystem of the country's second largest river, Greenpeace investigation shows"

"Satellite figures show surge in deforestation, as agriculture expands in states of Para and Mato Grosso"

"In a village 2500m high in the Indian Himalayas, life is changing. Many of the younger generation seek to chart a new course, different from those of their parents. This is one man's story of juggling responsibilities and fighting for dreams, both for himself and for his community."

This is so COOL . The National Library of Scotland's (NLS) Map Department has recently completed a huge georeferencing exercise, taking a set of Six-Inch-To-Mile (1:10560) maps for the whole of England and Wales, scanning them in to create high-quality images, and lining them up with Google Maps and OpenStreetMap modern maps. The maps were drawn between 1888-1913 and so represent a complete picture of the countries a hundred years ago. They have developed a side-by-side tool to allow for easy comparison between the old and new maps.

"Filmmakers follow one girl's story inside Rio's biggest favela, starting from the time she was born."

"World has already exhausted a year's supply of natural resources in less than eight months, Global Footprint Network says"

"The number of births in England and Wales fell in 2013 by the largest annual amount in nearly 40 years, official figures show."

This is the sort of thing i will send fpor you to read

"Indonesia lost 840,000 hectares of forest in 2012 compared to 460,000 hectares in Brazil, despite its forest being a quarter the size of the Amazon rainforest"

"Rapid industrialisation has left a legacy of soil pollution that is damaging health and livelihoods in villages across China, "

"Environmental consequences of removing hills to create more land for cities not considered, academics say in Nature paper"

"Number of proposed goals reduced from 19 to 16 as UN working group merges target areas ahead of 2015 deadline"

"As Brazil comes under the World Cup spotlight, life goes on as usual for millions of Brazilians working to make a living in the shanty towns - or favelas. The largest favela in Rio de Janeiro is Rocinha, where homes are packed together in a sprawling maze of streets and alleys."

"IN HER parents' bare brick-built shack in southern Beijing, Li Xue sifts through piles of court verdicts, petitions and other papers that record her family's struggle for most of the 20 years of her life to secure a simple document: a household registration certificate, the basic building block of official identity in China. Because she was born in violation of China's one-child-per-couple policy, local officials will not give her one. As a result she could not go to school. She now cannot get a job, nor get married, nor even buy a train or plane ticket. Despite recent moves to relax family-planning rules, the ordeal for Ms Li (pictured) is still far from over."

"You'd need a car park a little bigger than Wales. If you'd like to know how much stuff is in the world's cars, or how much they emit in a year, watch this great little video from Carbon Visuals."