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Today, like every other day, Israel will commit war crimes. They'll murder children. They'll steal lands. They'll bomb homes. They'll do it with impunity and the backing of those who claim to care about "human rights". Do everything you can. Use your voice. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Scotland votes to boycott Israel

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with" JR then demolishes Farage, ending with "You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

Study used @OrdnanceSurvey data track how amenities had changed 2014 & 2024: divided into “health promoting” - pharmacies, libraries & supermarkets & “health reducing”- vaping, bookmakers, takeaways & alcohol #geographyteachers #NEA #Usegeography theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

For most people, international migration means crossing a nearby border, not an ocean. Let’s look at Asia, the most populous continent. When an Asian emigrant leaves their home country, they can move to either another Asian country or one of the other five continents. Six out of ten Asian emigrants stay within Asia. European and North American emigrants show an even stronger tendency to stay in their continent, at 70% and 87%, respectively. In Africa and South America, this share is smaller, at about half. While this data aims to include illegal migrants, experts acknowledge the challenges in fully measuring this population. It makes sense that most migrants stay on the same continent. For instance, people might prefer places where they share a language or culture, have family nearby, or can return home cheaply and more quickly.

Some startling figures on infrastructure at risk in the new England flood risk assessment. Over 30% of roads and railways at risk today, rising to 50% due to climate change. Large % of other critical infrastructure also already at risk, all rising in future too.

🧩 👶 what happens when a developing region ages before it gets rich? the LatAm population puzzle... a thread ↓🧵

🌍 Natural world heritage sites are at growing risk under rapid climate change, especially from extreme climate events, a @natureportfolio study shows. Urgent action and adaptation is needed to safeguard our irreplaceable natural heritage 🌎 ➡️ ow.ly/JGKf50UqMMZ

The new interactive maps of Scotland's census data were released this week. They are fascinating! I have already spent hours exploring them, and there is so much more to look at!

Deep dive: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030 With my colleague Molly I've dug deep into the govt's 136-page action plan for decarbonising the grid by 2030 If achieved, it'd see offshore wind become backbone of power sector – in just 6yrs carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-t… 1/2

#ArcticReportCard 2024: “The tundra…is now emitting more carbon that it stores…This is yet one more signal, predicted by scientists, of the consequences of failing to reduce fossil fuel pollution.” - Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., NOAA administrator. #AGU24 #ClimateReadyNation @noaaresearch @NOAAClimate @theAGU @rickspinradnoaa

🌳 Rainforests: Layers of life 🌿 From the forest floor to the tops of the tallest trees, #rainforests are true wonders of nature. Explore how each layer plays a unique role. 👇 via @globalforests, @WorldResources

“This is a vicious circle. Climate change is making geopolitics less stable, which harms climate action. This will worsen climate change, meaning more geopolitical instability, and so on.” theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-of…

Ooft, this FT climate graphic of the week "First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows" ft.com/content/63fbcf…

Delighted in the liberation of the torture prison of Saydnaya. In 2016 we met five survivors and together reconstructed the prison from their recollections. forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…

After targeting Jabalia, the Israeli military is continuing its campaign to forcefully displace Palestinians from northern Gaza, this time from Beit Lahia. Multiple schools, serving as some of the last remaining shelters in the area, have been set on fire. Palestinians who followed the designated evacuation routes were attacked as they attempted to flee, while reports indicate that many who remained were massacred in their homes. Kamal Adwan Hospital has been targeted yet again through both strikes and forced evacuations, leaving it without medical supplies or sufficient staff to treat the mounting numbers of injured civilians.

Get a cup of coffee and listen to Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data; Uni Oxford) explain in 12 minutes how we can solve the climate crisis. We have the means to do it. But we must overcome the powerful resistance by those who benefit from the current fossil fuel system.

Today’s life expectancy data for Great Britain shows a decline in most areas during 2021 to 2023, compared with the pre #COVID19 period of 2017 to 2019. This suggests we are yet to see a recovery from the decrease in life expectancy we saw during the pandemic.

This is a bivariate map showing the rainfall and temperature of Africa.

Polar bears may have roamed ice age Scotland: Here’s a recent BBC article edited onto a 1-page reading sheet. I remember first hearing about this in the 2004 documentary British Isles – A Natural History. Fascinating to get this update. Link above. #geography #geographyteacher