Globalisation, Global Organisations and TNCs

TNCS- The Guardian 3 August 2020

Britain summoned Iran’s ambassador following an attack on the Mercer Street, an oil tanker, off the coast of Oman. Two crew members were killed on July 29th when a drone hit the Japanese-owned, Liberian-flagged vessel, which is operated by Zodiac Maritime, an Israeli firm based in London. America, Britain and Israel blame Iran for the attack.

Migration

UN: Number of migrants, refugees from Venezuela reaches 3 million

hattp://aje.io/m3ucf
Al Jazeera 9 Nov 2018

Current state of migration to Europe 15 June 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/what-current-scale-migration-crisis-europe-future-outlook
The Guardian 15 June 2018

Sri Lanka out migration post economic crisis

https://www.dailymirror.lk/business-news/Outward-labour-migration-tops-100-000-so-far-this-year/273-236669#:~:text=Sri%20Lanka's%20outward%20labour%20migration,political%20crises%20in%20the%20country

Daily Mirror May 2022

Ageing Population

Remarkable' decline in fertility rates

BBC 9 Nov 2018 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46118103

Weather Hazards

El Niño in 2018, 2019

http://news.sky.com/story/new-el-nino-could-bring-flooding-this-winter-meteorologists-warn-11565396

Sky News 27 Nov 2018

Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58303792

Adaptation in Spain

https://www.weforum.org/videos/seville-replicates-ancient-canal-system-to-fight-heatwaves

World Economic Forum, Sept 2022

Energy

Green Energy and Africa

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58652848

BBC Sept 2021

Kremlin denies restricting gas supplies to Europe for political gain
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/22/kremlin-denies-restricting-gas-supplies-europe-political-gain-pipeline-russia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Guardian 22 Dec 20201

Which form of renewable energy is cheapest?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45881551

BBC 27 Oct 2018

China Myanmar Oil Investment

https://espresso.economist.com/6003950cffdc86970909a494861920c6

Economist Expresso 4 Jan 2018

Canadian Tar Sands secret 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/14/canadas-shameful-environmental-secret-tar-sands-tailings-ponds

The Guardian 14 Nov 2017

UK increased Wind Power use

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/20/new-offshore-windfarms-push-uk-renewables-to-record

The Guardian 20 Dec 2018

Carbon Capture and Storage

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/The-US-Spent-11B-On-Failed-Carbon-Capture-Projects-In-A-Decade.html

Jan 2022

Hydrogen Fuel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkX-H24Chfw

Aug 2021

2nd Generation Biofuels

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/raizen-shell-supply-second-generation-ethanol-ferrari-f-1-team-2021-11-14/

Nov 2021

2nd and 3rd Generation Biofuels explained

https://thefederal.com/analysis/blending-20-per-cent-ethanol-in-petrol/

Sept 2021

UK net zero carbon plan

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58899006

Oct 2021

Issues with UK's net carbon zero plan

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/12/net-zero-climate-strategy-uk-government-sued

Jan 2022

Biggest users of renewable and non-renewable energy in 2021

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/08/02/which-country-is-the-world-leader-in-renewable-energy-in-2021

Aug 2021

Countries leading the way with renewables

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/11-countries-leading-the-charge-on-renewable-energy/

Climate Council Jan 2019

Tectonic Activity

Curriculum press: Earthquakes
https://geographyalevelslc.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/a133-earthquake.pdf

Nepal 2015 Earthquake

Curriculum press UK: Nepal Gorka Earthquake 2015
https://www.queenelizabeths.derbyshire.sch.uk/PDF/sixthform/work/Geography%20-%20Nepal%20Gorkha%20earthquake.pdf

Japan Tectonic Activity

Japan 2024 1st Jan Noto EQ 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5Yw0F7tuwH/?igsh=eTdoNHFpc3VkNDJ5

Japan preparation post 2023 Jan 1st earthquake 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/japan-earthquakes-resilient-architecture-disaster-preparedness

Geofile: Japan 2011 Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis January 2012
https://www.thegeographeronline.net/uploads/2/6/6/2/26629356/tohoku_geofile.pdf

Japan Times: Kobe 20 years on 16 Jan 2015
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/01/16/editorials/the-kobe-quake-20-years-on/#.W87dM6ThXv4

Blog Scientific American: Kobe Earthquake  17 Jan 2012
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/january-17-1995-the-kobe-earthquake-and-early-antiseismic-architecture/

GeoActive Online: The Japanese Earthquake and Tsumami 2011
https://www.kerboodle.com/system/images/W1siZiIsIjIwMTQvMDcvMjQvMTUvMDIvNTYvOTcvR0E0ODQucGRmIl1d/GA484.pdf

Guardian: Japan earthquake preparation 11 Mar 2011
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/11/japan-earthquake-preparation

CNN: Japan tsunami prepareness 11 Mar 2011
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/11/moore.japan.tsunami/index.html

Reuters: Japan’s preparation Mar 2011
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSTRE72B0Q620110314

Development Gap

World Economic Forum 4 May 2018
Ethiopia: fastest growing economy in Africa
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/ethiopia-africa-fastest-growing-economy/

Big Think 12 Aug 2018
China’s influence on Africa
https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.com/china-investment-in-africa-2605019624.amp.html

Climate Change

Amazon Forest die-back The Guardian Oct 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/04/south-american-monsoon-heading-towards-tipping-point-likely-to-cause-amazon-dieback?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Species at risk due to climate change The Guardian April 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/09/lemurs-and-giant-tortoises-among-species-at-risk-if-global-warming-reaches-3c

Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse The Guardian August 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-crisis-scientists-spot-warning-signs-of-gulf-stream-collapse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The US city that has raised $100m to climate-proof its buildings
The Guardian 21 August 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/19/ithaca-new-york-raised-100m-climate-proof-buildings?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

La Niña 2020 
The Guardian 29 Oct 2020 
2020 likely to be one of warmest years on record despite La Niña
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/29/2020-warmest-year-record-la-nina-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Climate Change: Losing battle
Economist 2 Aug 2018
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/02/the-world-is-losing-the-war-against-climate-change

Maldives and other islands: can they be saved?
Al Jazeera 22 Oct 2018
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/don-lose-home-climate-change-181020115829222.html

IPCC Findings
Independent 8 Oct 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-ipcc-report-un-fossil-fuels-greenhouse-gas-co2-a8574731.html

COP 24 Climate Change-where are we now? BBC 4 Dec 2018

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46398057

Sri Lanka ranked 2nd on Climate Change Risk Index
Daily Mirror 6 Dec 2018
http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/SL-ranked-second-in-the-Global-Climate-Risk-Index--159427.html

Oceans Temperature record in 2018
The Guardian 16 Jan 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2019/jan/16/our-oceans-broke-heat-records-in-2018-and-the-consequences-are-catastrophic

Biodiversity

Fees increase in Komodo Island 

Aug 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/02/fee-rise-komodo-dragons-triggers-strike-indonesia-tourism-workers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Giant pandas no longer endangered in the wild, China announces

July 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/09/giant-pandas-no-longer-endangered-in-the-wild-china-announces?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Tune numbers increase

Sept 2021

Tuna bounce back, but sharks in 'desperate' decline https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58441142

Iconic animals get more funding 

9 Dec 2020 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/09/sexy-beasts-animals-with-charisma-get-lions-share-of-eu-conservation-funds-aoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Invasive Asian hornets in America

12 Nov 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54910098

‘Super-sized' mice threaten seabird colonies with extinction
BBC: Invasive Species 22 Oct 2018

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45918770

Keystone species 

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/if-these-species-go-entire-ecosystems-will-disappear/

Keystone species in rainforests

https://www.edtechlens.com/blog/rainforest-science-blog-kids-ecosystem-building-block-keystone-species

https://fhsapes1tropicalrainforest.weebly.com/trophic-species.html

Amazon Rainforest
Geofile: April 2011
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/share.nanjing-school.com/dist/1/43/files/2012/10/GF640-Amazon-rainforest-13dfbl8.pdf

World Bank and WWF support Amazon conservation
World Bank 9 Oct 2013
http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2013/10/09/Brazil-protects-Amazon-increasing-size-protected-areas

Sinharaja Rainforest
UNESCO
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/405

India, China reforesting
https://www.google.com/amp/s/worldsbestnews.org/news/more-forest-in-the-worlds-largest-nations/%3famp=true

Amazon Rainforest: new president plans to relax controls
BBC 31 Oct 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-latin-america-46039996


China is decimating South East Asian wildlife
The Diplomat 24 Jan 2018

https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/china-is-decimating-southeast-asian-wildlife/

Forests will be gone in 100 years 
Guardian 23 Jan 2017

https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jan/23/destroying-rainforests-quickly-gone-100-years-deforestation

Fishing: Conservation in name only
Economist Expresso 23 Nov 2018

https://espresso.economist.com/f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454

Earth has lost 82% of loss of mammals
Guardian 6 May 2019
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report

WWF Living Planet Report
Travel blog 2014
https://www.nathab.com/blog/wwfs-living-planet-report-2014-we-now-have-less-than-half-the-biodiversity-of-just-forty-years-ago/

Action on Invasive Species
BBC 25 Oct 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50173577

2018 Conservation success stories 
WWF 21 Dec 2018
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/successes/?340631/Nine-successes-of-2018

Conservation success of Gorillas
BBC 16 Dec 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-46199100

Seed bank issues
Independent 2 Nov 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/environment/seed-banks-plants-endangered-trees-kew-environment-millennium-a8614696.html%3famp

Zoos are outdated and cruel
Independent 14 Aug 2019 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/zoos-cruel-wildlife-conservation-species-a9056701.html%3famp

Indonesia 2004 Tsunami, 2018 Palu earthquake and tsunami

Geofile: Asian Tsunami 2004 January 2006 https://geographyalevelslc.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/asian-tsunami-2004.pdf

UNDP: Preparation Progress in Aceh 26 Jan 2012
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/articles/2012/01/26/earthquake-preparedness-works-indonesians-show.html

Al Jazeera: Earthquake-proof buildings? 19 Oct 2018
http://aje.io/rdf26

Earth Magazine: Indonesia prepares for hazards
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/hazards-paradise-indonesia-prepares-natural-disasters

UNDP Preparing for tsunamis
http://www.id.undp.org/content/indonesia/en/home/presscenter/articles/2018/one-of-the-world-s-most-disaster-prone-countries--indonesia-prep.html

GFDRR: Projects preparating for hazards
https://www.gfdrr.org/indonesia

Economist: Earthquake and tsunami 4 Oct 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/asia/2018/10/06/the-earthquake-and-tsunami-in-indonesia-have-killed-more-than-1400#ampf=undefined

BBC: Palu earthquake and tsunami 29 Sept 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-45683630


Guardian: Indonesia unprepared 3 Oct 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/03/the-guardian-view-on-the-indonesian-tsunami-preparing-for-the-worst

National Geographic: Assessing Indonesia ‘s preparation 28 Sept 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/news/2014/12/141226-tsunami-indonesia-catastrophe-banda-aceh-warning-science