Bangkok residents are now forced to be more knowledgeable about geography.
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Coca Cola to Disney: The world's top 100 brands - 2 views
Thailand flood could create laptop shortage - Nov. 1, 2011 - 1 views
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Connects freshwater issues with economic global interactions
Map shows stark divide between who caused climate change and who's being hit | Damian C... - 0 views
The flood situation animated ... - 1 views
How big was the world's population when you were born? guardian.co.uk - 0 views
Lessons can be learnt from disastrous floods - The Nation - 2 views
Climate change could trap hundreds of millions in disaster areas - 1 views
John Lennon was not a neo-Malthusian! - 1 views
Rankin: It's time to fix the world's broken food system | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
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here has been a drought since 2005.
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While severe drought has undoubtedly led to the huge scale of the disaster, this crisis has been caused by people and policies, as much as by weather patterns. Climate change, rising food prices, lack of investment in small-scale farming and the grabbing of land being used to grow food for local people by speculative investors has resulted in communities just not being able to grow enough food to survive.
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Drought is inevitable but famine is manmade
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A very good article on the causes of famine in Kenya at the moment. See highlighted bits.
Refugees - National Geographic Education - 3 views
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A very good overview of who refugees are, and their impacts, including a slideshow of images
How the 787 will change the way we fly - 4 views
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Thanks to Ameya for this one ...
Mapping the famine in the Horn of Africa - 2 views
The Arctic's near-record sea ice low - 0 views
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