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This is why geography matters 👀🗺 (he’s trying to find Croatia) #TheApprentice #geographyteacher
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Illness and technical difficulties have curtailed #geogglebox for the last couple of weeks. But it's back with a nice little sprinkling Christmassy geography to watch this week. JC
A-Level geographers: This links to Global Systems and Global Governance, how Government Policy might be changing to keep young people in the country.
Portugal is proposing major tax breaks for young people to dissuade them from leaving the country, including foreigners.
Under the plan, people aged 18 to 35 would be fully exempt from taxes in their first year of work, with the breaks decreasing over a period of ten years.
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GCSE geographers: Here is an example of preparedness, hurricane straps being used to protect properties during Hurricane Milton.
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The AquaFence is back up at Tampa General Hospital to protect against storm surge from Hurricane Milton.
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Timelapse flying by Hurricane Milton today about 2 hours ago. Storm looks bigger but less symmetric than yesterday.
1/2000 sec, f8, 14mm, ISO 500, 0.5 sec interval, 30fps
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Planning some #fieldwork in upland areas? This free resource pack might give you ideas and save you some time!
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Extremely rare flooding has hit the Sahara Desert.
It has been at least 30 years since the Moroccan region has seen this much rain in such a short space of time.
Y10 are currently looking at how to reduce the risk of tropical storms - preparedness and evacuation are just one of many tools.
Hurricane Milton: More than 1m people warned to evacuate
channel4.com/news/hurricane-…
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UK agrees to give up sovereignty of remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in historic deal over one of its last overseas territories bbc.in/4eN2Mm5
A-Level geographers: this links to Changing Places and Global Systems and Global Governance 👇🏽
‘It’s heartbreaking’: gloom in Port Talbot as steel town’s last blast furnace closes theguardian.com/business/202…
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NSW residents urged to prepare for bushfire season now after hazard reduction targets missed theguardian.com/australia-ne…
🚨Y10 are currently learning about tropical storms including what they are, conditions needed for their formation, their structure and the impact of climate change on their intensity and frequency in the future. This is a great summary by the BBC: bbc.co.uk/news/extra/cfpor50…
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Another packed #geogglebox this week, with the likes of The Adventure Show and Our Tiny Islands! JC
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Earls Barton live on the @BBCOne Six O’clock News just now as the heavy rain falls in the county.
Y10 have been looking at air pressure, the jet stream and the global atmospheric circulation model to try to understand how the movement of air impacts weather around the world.
Huge change to our weather in next five days. #indiansummer
Jet stream to north of us = warm 😎
Jet stream to south of us = cool 😠
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Planning some #fieldwork on urban regeneration? This free resource pack might give you ideas and save you some time!
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Another good article for A Level Geographers! Links to Global Systems and The Carbon Cycle #geographyteacher
theconversation.com/antarcti…
