What Is Desertification? - 4 views
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Matt Podbury on 15 Feb 11What Is Desertification?
Flash Floods | RankinStudio - 4 views
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David Rankin chases, predicts, and captures Flash Floods on video as a hobby.
Climate change in Russia's Arctic tundra: 'Our reindeer go hungry. There isn't enough p... - 4 views
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For 1,000 years the indigenous Nenets people have herded their reindeer along the Yamal peninsula. But their survival in this remote region of north-west Siberia is under serious threat from climate change as Russia's ancient permafrost melts
GLOBIO Press release: Global Deserts Outlook - 4 views
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The world's deserts are facing dramatic changes as a result of global climate change, high water demands, tourism and salt contamination of irrigated soils.
Mauritania Iron Ore Express - 4 views
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Mineral Extraction in the Sahara Desert
The start of IB Geography 2009 Diigo Groups - 3 views
This is an effort to collect and organize web bases resources for the new IB Geography syllabus - teaching of which will start mid 2009. Use Diigo, join the group and share the resources you find!
Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth - Europe, Travel - The Independent - 3 views
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Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun Walker enjoys a mini-break in deepest Siberia
Palin's Travels: Zouérat, Mauritania, Sahara, Day 22 - 2 views
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Mineral extraction in Mauritania. Settlement
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Zouerat. Mineral extraction and settlement in the Sahara.
High mountain glaciers and climate change - 2 views
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interactive book
BBC News - Extreme World: Hot and Cold - 4 views
Greenland's race for minerals threatens culture on the edge of existence | World news |... - 2 views
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Stephen Pax Leonard reports on the changes facing the Inughuit people, as mining of the country's vast untapped mineral wealth looks set to overwhelm their traditions
Glossary of Glacier Terminology: A glossary providing the vocabulary necessary to under... - 1 views
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Glossary of Glacier Terminology: A glossary providing the vocabulary necessary to understand the modern glacier environment.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists explain Arctic stone circles - 1 views
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patterned ground
YouTube - Russian Permafrost Melt - BBC - 3 views
geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Glacial environment - 1 views
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The aim of this lesson: To be able to explain the advance and retreat of glaciers. To be able to explain the main features resulting from the processes of erosion and deposition by glaciers [glacial trough, a cirque, hanging valley, an arête, a pyramidal peak, an erratic, a drumlin, various types of moraine]. Updated Feb 2012
geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Desertification - 2 views
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Updated June 2012 To examine the processes and factors involved in desertification
http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/elearning/module13swf.swf - 1 views
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Animation showing different types of glaciers, anatomy of glaciers, glacial movement, glacial erosion, glacial deposition (and features), and glacial landscapes. Good descriptions.
Melting glaciers will destroy Alpine resorts within 45 years, says report | Environment... - 1 views
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The grandchildren of today's skiers are likely to know the white peaks of Switzerland only from the wrappers of chocolate bars. A remarkable report on climate change that will be handed to European governments this week will say that the effect of rising temperatures will mean an end to snow across large areas of the Alps.
The retreat of the world's glaciers - 1 views
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While climatologists argue over the effect that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide will have on the climate, there is one thing we can't ignore. The world's glaciers are melting. Rapidly.