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Geographic themes
Freshwater
Spain’s deadly floods
Dubai battles flood waters as historic storm causes chaos
‘New climate reality’ stretches global freshwater supply
AI boom sparks concern over Big Tech’s water consumption
Extreme environments
Denmark raises investment in Arctic surveillance to counter Russian build-up
Oceans and coastal margins
To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’
geophysical hazards
Japan earthquake death toll rises to 55 as military joins relief effort
Urban environments
Low traffic neighbourhood schemes drive wedge between communities across UK
Saudi Arabia’s mega-project: a 170km line city through the desert
How cities around the world are tackling climate change
Leisure, tourism and sport
New jets help passengers avoid congestion at hub airports
No mojitos and no lights: Cuba’s tourism industry fights losing battle
AC Milan in talks to promote war-torn DRC as tourist destination
Less meat on menus and fewer new venues: how the Olympics is trying to go green
Food and health
Malnutrition crisis threatens child health gains, warns Bill Gates
UK becomes first European country to approve lab-grown meat
Global change
Unit 1 — Population distribution — changing population
The baby gap: why governments can’t pay their way to higher birth rates
Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards
Asia’s ageing population could deliver a ‘silver dividend’
South Korea bets on foreign housekeepers to ease women’s workloads and boost birth rate
Marriage holds key to Japan’s falling births
Pandemic blamed for falling birth rates across much of Europe
Unit 2 — Global climate — vulnerability and resilience
How climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine map
‘We’re running out of time’: UN warns of 3.1C temperature rise
Europe must push for low CO₂ bread, says fertiliser group chief
Alarm raised on sea level rise and ocean warming as Pacific Islands leaders meet
Warmer, wetter, hotter, drier — February caps unending stretch of record temperatures
Ski industry navigates new terrain to fend off threat of climate change
Unit 3 — Global resource consumption and security
Britain boosts electricity exports to France because of high winds
UAE’s Taqa seeks to shine with solar energy push
India’s energy demands to grow more than those of other countries, says IEA chief
Global interactions
Unit 4 — Power, places and networks
How Greenland got caught in a clash of superpowers
UK gives Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure military base
Christmas shipments rush risks deepening supply chain crisis, warns Maersk boss
Unit 5 — Human development and diversity
How the car industry is exposed to Donald Trump’s tariffs
The far-right’s disturbing success in eastern Germany
Joe Biden to raise solar import tariffs in bid to protect US industry
Unit 6 — Global risks and resilience
North Korean hackers use AI for more sophisticated scams
Richard Allaway, International School of Geneva/geographyalltheway.com
