Alice Griffiths

Mapped: Greenest Cities in America in 2025 The 2025 ranking of America’s greenest cities reveals San Jose, CA in the #1 spot, followed by Washington, D.C.

www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-green...

The UK government set itself a very ambitious target - at least 95% clean electricity by 2030.

Targets are one thing - what matters is delivery.

Progress has been made: The numbers of new renewable energy schemes and capacity granted planning permission has skyrocketed.

And in the spirit of naming names, thank you Sarah Scott from the @environmentagency.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy and Hillary Philips from @riverthamect.bsky.social You are doing some inspiring stuff with riverine environments

Biodiversity Net Gain | Berks Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT's ecology consultancy, Future Nature WTC, provides ecology, biodiversity and land advice services while ensuring the best outcomes for nature. These services include Biodiversity Net Gain using ...

Thank you @bbowt.bsky.social for a great introduction to #biodiversitynetgain talk this week. Will be interested to see how it evolves e.g. leading to investment in nature local to the site of developments, or not. Lessons learnts from carbon trading schemes, or not www.bbowt.org.uk/what-we-do/f...

Six Inches of Soil The inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communitie...

Six inches of #soil film conveys the difference between 'commercial large-scale' agriculture, organic and regenerative, and is a tonne of hope #Alevel #geographyteacher 'Further reading'? www.sixinchesofsoil.org

YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather 08/03/2025 - What is climate change, and how does it impact our planet? - Met Office explains

Love this new video from @metoffice.gov.uk for GCSE geography. Ideal for teaching about natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change #geographyteacher #womeninSTEM www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MY...

Useful resource for #Alevel #geographyteacher - place meaning and place representation

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country #Climate

AS & A2 Geography Talks - 2025/26 The Belfast Branch of the Geographical Association has organised a series of talks for school pupils and their teachers to support the delivery of CCEA's AS and A2 specification. These talks take pla...

🌎Geographical Association Northern Ireland Branch

🌎Hybrid Lecture
📆 21st October
📍 QUB Geography and Online

Sylvia Knight (RMetS) will be speaking on 'El Nino Southern Oscillation & Associated Changes to Global Weather'

REGISTER HERE-
www.eventbrite.com/cc/as-a2-geo...

#GeographyTeacher

BBC Sounds - Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World Thomas Midgley’s inventions harmed millions, but could they have been foreseen?

Enjoyed listening to this Cautionary Tale about the inventor of CFCs and the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer - nice shoutout for the @bas.ac.uk #geographyteacher www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

See also Paddy Guiness discussing this on BBC Radio 2 after his kids' primary school offered a trip to NASA in Florida!

Insurance industry revises forecasts for flood risk in the UK: ‘We’re not in this because we’re climate campaigners or trying to burnish our credentials or because we have a political agenda. This is a hard-headed calculation, we’re looking at the numbers’. #climatechange #industryvoice

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050 The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Actually the moves are widely popular with two-thirds supporting

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference? The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide

Interesting read for #geographyteacher updating our understanding of the role of birds in succession #lithosere #Alevelgeography www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ranked: Countries With the Most High-Speed Rail in 2025 We look at countries with the most high-speed rail in 2025, from China’s vast network to emerging projects in India and the U.S.

www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-count...

Looking for professional support as a primary teacher for your geography class?

Below are the CDP events that the GA has lined up to enhance the quality of geography teaching for primary teachers.

Click this link to learn more about the courses: the-ga.org/CPDevents

When in Westminster to hear about geopolitics from Tim Marshall … #personalispolitical #macromicro #cityselfie

I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain | Nazia Parveen The shadow justice secretary complained of a lack of integration in an area that has shown, time and time again, that it is for everyone, says Nazia Parveen, an assistant managing editor at the Guardi...

Exactly what I thought of, when I heard the news ... and so too did Nazia Parveen of The Guardian - timely comment piece here #Handsworth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Channel Zero Benjamin Zephaniah Soho Road

Great poem for #geographyteacher this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYDg...

Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

#fastfashion www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Are you a National Plant Monitoring Scheme volunteer? 🌿

Don’t miss our online event on 18 Oct celebrating 10 years of NPMS and the amazing work of our volunteers!

Our NPMS Volunteer Manager Rachel will be sharing insights into volunteer roles, opportunities, and accessibility. #NPMS10

Interception reduction from deforestation and forest fire increases large-scale fluvial flooding risk - Communications Earth & Environment Forest coverage loss from wildfires and deforestation increases flood risk for large-scale river catchments by reducing interception, according to analysis of data from twenty-one watersheds in Australia.

🌧️ Forest loss and flooding

A new study shows that deforestation and forest fires in Australia reduce rainfall interception, increasing river flooding across vast regions.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Floods 🧪

Britons back staying in ECHR by 46% to 29%, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Radical with Amol Rajan - Climate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming (Gaia Vince) - BBC Sounds Gaia Vince makes the positive case for immigration despite public concern over the issue.

Huge pleasure to talk to the lovely Amol Rajan this week. Hoping I made some sense!

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

Sad #biodiversity update re habitat loss, but rich fodder for environmental #poetry, perhaps www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Sharp rise in UK plastic exports shows how behind the country is

The EU has agreed to ban exports of waste to poorer nations. The ban comes into force in November 2026

The UK does not have a similar ban in place

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This doesn't bode well for #geography, we barely get any applications for jobs and didn't get a single one for maternity cover...😬

Marine heatwaves to become more frequent off UK and Irish coasts, experts say Scientists find 10% chance that similar events to the ‘unheard of’ temperatures in 2023 could occur each year

Marine heatwaves to become more frequent off UK and Irish coasts, experts say #Climate

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

Carbon offsetting suffers from deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve says review paper from Oxford Uni

“We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...