IB Geography Patterns and Change

Video clip on Dongtan, China - Eco -city

China, as we have reported recently, is making serious commitments to stemming the environmental damage being caused by their explosive industial revolution. One of the biggest ecological projects taking place in China is that of Dongtan

Several articles all about the battle over trade - Doha, trade talks, subsidies.

Concerns over immigration and security have prompted the US government to erect more than 1,000km of fencing along the Mexican border. But the contentious plan which cuts through private property in some areas has sparked anger among some US homeowners and farmers. Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports from Brownsville, Texas, along the Mexican border.

The United Kingdom is officially a grey nation. The number of pensioners exceeds the number of children under 16 for the first time, figures published yesterday show.

The working conditions of many poor African migrants in rural areas of southern Italy are "appalling", the international medical charity MSF says

A decade ago, unmarried Arab women like Ms. Fathi, working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations flocked to the oil-rich Persian Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so, sociologists say, though no official statistics are kept on how many.

Government fears baby boom will damage economic growth and strain health and education services

The first detailed digital soil map of sub-Saharan Africa is to be created. The £12m ($17.5m) project will offer farmers in 42 countries a "soil health diagnosis" and advice on crop yields.

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

Family-planning officials say their research indicates that 70% of women want to have two babies or more.