IB Geography Patterns and Change

Matt Crook visits Timor-Leste to see how farmers in the "coffee triangle" are benefiting from an initiative backed by the US Agency for International Development that will see new coffee trees distributed to 1,200 farms. The revival of Timor-Leste's traditional coffee crop will be crucial for the country's economic recovery

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The harmful effects of global warming are being felt "here and now and in your backyard," a groundbreaking US government report on climate change has warned.

Climate change in Malawi is pushing people further into poverty and women are suffering most, according to our new report (Wed June 17).

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More than 2,000 Roma (Gypsies) who fled Kosovo during the conflict in the 1990s still live in Konik refugee camp near Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro.

WASHINGTON - The world's 65-and-older population will triple by mid-century to 1 in 6 people, leaving the U.S. and other nations struggling to support the elderly.

Researchers predict a "population time bomb" in developing world nations because of their rapidly ageing populations.

Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.

New Oxfam report warns multiple climate impacts could reverse 50 years of work to end poverty

Demography means virtually all of us will have to work longer. That need not be a bad thing

New satellite data from NASA confirms what research released a couple months of go said regarding the thinning of Arctic sea ice . Namely that it has thinned dramatically in the past four years and that for the first time in recorded history seasonal sea ice cover has replaced multi-year ice as the dominant ice type. I

The world is about to cross a demographic landmark of huge social and economic importance, with the proportion of the global population 65 and over set to outnumber children under five for the first time

In every country of the world, the demographic timebomb is ticking away. Yet in Britain, the countdown is surprisingly slow. And when it goes off, it may not be quite the explosion we feared