Going Global Edexcel Geography Year 12

"Many people don't know about the enormous progress most countries have made in recent decades - or maybe the media hasn't told them. But with the following five facts everyone can upgrade their world view."

"An eight-year-old girl becomes China's 'youngest' lung-cancer patient as doctors say high levels of air pollution responsible for her condition"

"The chairman of the IPCC warns that the only way to reduce large-scale fossil-fuel use is to 'price' carbon emissions"

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"Satellite images show how the march of progress has altered the face of the earth in just a few decades. The images were all taken by a fleet of Earth-observing satellites that form part of the 'Landsat' program, which celebrates its 40th anniversary on 23 July."

"DON´T PANIC, is a one-hour documentary film produced by Wingspan Productions for This World on BBC2 and others. The film covers world population, income distribution and the use of fossil fuel. The presenter, Professor Hans Rosling, is the co-founder of Gapminder Foundation, and Gapminder also supplied the data shown in the program and the educational concepts on which the program's graphics are based."

Excellent graphics - have a play what trends can you find

Excellent sites for case studies of pollution incidents

Improving supply chains

"Demand for sugar is triggering land conflicts, says Oxfam, as it calls on Coca-Cola and other major firms to have zero tolerance"

This site is excellent. Choose abrand and you will see how they perform. Interesting to also see who owns who.

"When you are in the middle of a torrent of change, innovation eclipsing innovation, it can be hard to know what is passing and what will last. But the BBC's Peter Day believes that, here, in 2013, we are in the middle of a revolution so great it could turn our old familiar world upside down."

"Country impounds huge shipment and claims British companies are using it as dumping ground for toxic old appliances"

"At Agbogbloshie, young people scavenge for scrap metal amid the smoke from plastics fires. The health risks are obvious - but the money is too good to ignore"

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

Superb interactive maps showing Global Footprints

"The levelling of the Ahyeon overpass marks the latest attempt to improve the environment of South Korea's sprawling capital"

"From schools at sea to a city that perpetually sails the oceans, is climate change creating a bold new era of floating urban design? "

"The world is becoming more and more interconnected. Globalization changes how people consume, work and live almost everywhere on the world. Today, many economic, political, cultural or ecological relationships are not explainable from a national perspective. At the same time, a controversial debate about the consequences of globalization has begun. But what are the main causes for globalization? In what areas it is most prominent? And who are the winners and looser of globalization? These are the questions this animated Video clip of the WissensWerte series deals with. "