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Ewa Wink

The Irrawaddy News Magazine [Covering Burma and Southeast Asia] - 1 views

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    'Brown Clouds' Are World's Newest Environmental Threat By TINI TRAN AND JOHN HEILPRIN / AP WRITER Friday, November 14, 2008 BEIJING - A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported. The huge smog-like plumes, caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and firewood, are known as "atmospheric brown clouds." Cars drive through thick smog on a street in Beijing in September 2008. Enormous brown clouds of pollution hanging over Asia are killing hundreds of thousands of people, melting glaciers, changing weather patterns and damaging crops, the United Nations said. (Photo: AFP) When mixed with emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for warming the earth's atmosphere like a greenhouse, they are the newest threat to the global environment, according to a report commissioned by the UN Environment Program and released Thursday. "All of these points to an even greater and urgent need to look at emissions across the planet," said Achim Steiner, head of Kenya-based UNEP, which funded the report with backing from Italy, Sweden and the United States. Brown clouds are caused by an unhealthy mix of particles, ozone and other chemicals that come from cars, coal-fired power plants, burning fields and wood-burning stoves. First identified by the report's lead researcher in 1990, the clouds were depicted Thursday as being more widespread and causing more environmental damage than previously known. Perhaps most widely recognized as the haze this past summer over Beijing's Olympics, the clouds have been found to be more than a mile (kilometer) thick around glaciers in the Himalaya and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. They hide the sun and absorb radiation, leading to new worries not only about global climate change but also about extreme weather conditions. "All t
Ian Gabrielson

Artful, Aerial Views of Humanity's Impact - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "Artful, Aerial Views of Humanity's Impact" Powerful photographs to stimulate discussion
Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Causes of Migrations - 0 views

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    The aim of this lesson: To be able to evaluate internal (national) in terms of it's geographic (socio-economic, political and environmental) impacts at it's origins and destinations. To discuss the causes of voluntary, economic migration. To use China as a case-study of internal (national) migration. Updated July 2012
Gemma Archer

Alaska on the edge: Newtok's residents race to stop village falling into sea | Environm... - 0 views

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    human impacts of climate change - not strictly on the syllabus but interesting nonetheless could be good to use as an example of forced migration though
Matt Podbury

Desertification [English] - YouTube - 6 views

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    Soil Degradation - Excellent video for the socio economic impacts. 
Reuben Snyder

Global warming: The vanishing north | The Economist - 3 views

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    Impacts of global warming
Ian Gabrielson

Arctic sea ice levels to reach record low within days | Environment | The Guardian - 1 views

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    "Arctic sea ice levels to reach record low within days The dramatic melt expected over the next week signals that global warming is having a major impact on the polar region"
James Mattiace

What Will Be the Fate of the Playa San Carlos, Panama? | Congress for the New Urbanism - 0 views

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    Impact of Development on local environment and culture.
Richard Allaway

Women bear the brunt of growing environmental problems in Katine | Katine | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    John Vidal looks at the impact of climate change on the sub-county and how it is hitting women the hardest
Vicki Longhurst

BBC News - US to set fire to oil rig leak - 2 views

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    Louisiana Oil Spill
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