Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus)
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Half the World Lives on 1% of Its Land, Mapped

Half the World Lives on 1% of Its Land, Mapped | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.citylab.com - August 15, 2016 7:18 PM
The people of Earth really love their cities.
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Wine world - Geographical

Wine world - Geographical | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From geographical.co.uk - August 14, 2016 6:16 PM
Which countries produce the most wine? More importantly, which countries consume the most wine? Banjamin Hennig investigates
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The curse of urban sprawl: how cities grow, and why this has to change

The curse of urban sprawl: how cities grow, and why this has to change | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - August 14, 2016 5:01 AM
The total area covered by the world’s cities is set to triple in the next 40 years – eating up farmland and threatening the planet’s sustainability.
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2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see

From www.youtube.com - August 8, 2016 7:00 PM
Rio is hiding poor people. See Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3BRTlHFpBU Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
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Urban places - mega cities
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Duplitecture - 99% Invisible

Duplitecture - 99% Invisible | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From 99percentinvisible.org - August 7, 2016 2:17 AM
The best knock-offs in the world are in China. There are plenty of fake designer handbags and Rolexes but China’s knock-offs go way beyond fashion.
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Cultural integration
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PHOTOS: For #WorldPopulationDay, How Earth's 7 Billion Live

PHOTOS: For #WorldPopulationDay, How Earth's 7 Billion Live | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.npr.org - August 3, 2016 3:39 AM
Earth's crowded — and remote — spots are highlighted in entries to the 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
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The unprecedented aging crisis that’s about to hit China

The unprecedented aging crisis that’s about to hit China | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.pbs.org - August 2, 2016 4:32 AM

China has the largest Baby Boom generation in the world. But now just years away from a mass retirement, that country is headed toward a severe workforce crisis and retirement cost cash crunch.
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Nasa to map coral reefs from the air to show impact of climate change

Nasa to map coral reefs from the air to show impact of climate change | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - August 1, 2016 1:11 AM
Scientists hope large-scale maps will offer new insight into effects of warming and pollution as previous studies have almost always been done up close in the water
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Proposal wants the Rocks and Darling Harbour back in council hands

Proposal wants the Rocks and Darling Harbour back in council hands | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.smh.com.au - July 14, 2016 10:14 AM
The City of Sydney's plan to reshape the skyline and bring billions of dollars of development to the central business district has been given the tick o
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Urban places - Sydney, a large city in the developed world / urban dynamics
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These cities will be very rich in 10 years

These cities will be very rich in 10 years | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From money.cnn.com - June 18, 2015 2:27 AM
Chances are these cities mean little to you. Yet they are tipped to be among the richest in the world by 2025.
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Urban places

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How sea otters help save the planet

How sea otters help save the planet | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - July 10, 2016 4:15 AM
New research into the complex links of the food chain suggest that the lovable mammals play a key role in managing carbon dioxide levels
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Exploring Modern Human Migrations

Exploring Modern Human Migrations | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From nationalgeographic.org - August 15, 2016 7:17 PM
Students research the causes of several modern migrations, and create a map showing these migration routes.
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Bike jams and unwritten rules: a day with Amsterdam's new 'bicycle mayor'

Bike jams and unwritten rules: a day with Amsterdam's new 'bicycle mayor' | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - August 14, 2016 5:04 AM
Rush-hour bike jams, speeding scooters, ignorant tourists … Amsterdam may be the world’s busiest cycling capital but it is no two-wheeled paradise.
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I loved the cycling culture of Amsterdam - enough to join in safely and comfortably.... Also enjoyed the choice of whether to wear a helmet - this is an age limited requirement - under 15 I think!
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South Bronx: home of hip-hop fights to keep its soul as gentrification creeps in

South Bronx: home of hip-hop fights to keep its soul as gentrification creeps in | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - August 14, 2016 4:30 AM
As Netflix’s new show The Get Down charts the borough’s musical past, the area is becoming a hipster hotspot
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Living ‘in the red’

Living ‘in the red’ | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From wwf.panda.org - August 8, 2016 12:31 AM
Eight months into 2016, humans have already spent Earth’s ecological budget for the year.
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Zombie microbes, reindeer and the health risks of climate change

Zombie microbes, reindeer and the health risks of climate change | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.abc.net.au - August 4, 2016 4:48 AM
An outbreak of anthrax in Siberia is being sheeted home to climate change. But it's not just reindeer and their herders that are at risk from our warming climate.
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Biophysical interactions
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Pardon your French: Chinese tourists and a clash of cultures in Paris

Pardon your French: Chinese tourists and a clash of cultures in Paris | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.aljazeera.com - August 2, 2016 5:38 AM
As Paris becomes a hot spot for Chinese tourism, cultural tensions arise between tourists and locals.
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Sea level | NASA Global Climate Change

Sea level | NASA Global Climate Change | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From climate.nasa.gov - April 19, 2016 10:30 PM

Graphs showing sea level change from 1870 to present (2016), derived from tide gauge and satellite data.

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High-speed rail? At $200 billion we'd better get it right

High-speed rail? At $200 billion we'd better get it right | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From urban.melbourne - July 20, 2016 7:48 AM
Peter Newman, Curtin University
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Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF

Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - September 30, 2014 12:53 PM
Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats
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Ecosystems at risk

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Climate change could reduce Adélie penguin populations

Climate change could reduce Adélie penguin populations | Stage 6 HSC Geography ( Current syllabus) | Scoop.it
From www.treehugger.com - July 4, 2016 6:25 AM
Even a species that has benefited from temperature increases in the past may be hurt by excessive warming.
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