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Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the most populous city in India, and is one of the biggest cities in the world with an estimated population of about 13 million (they think!). Dharavi is one of Asia's largest slums, and it's up for sale. Some of India's biggest property developers are set to bid for tenders to develop it. Mumbai officials hope to see Dharavi transformed into a tourist destination. Karishma Vaswan reports for the BBC from Mumbai. The Dharavi slum case study is the perfect example of slum demolition. First, watch this video . ...and then read these articles: Bombay's billion dollar slum India's poor seek budget relief - consider some of the causes of housing problems in Mumbai. Growth gives hope to India's poor Selling India's slums India's 'biggest slum demolitions' List the positive and negative consequences of the demolition. If you've got time left, read these about Surat: Surat - a success story? Surat is a port city...

Worksheet explaining Relief and Contour lines... HERE .

Fun game to help with 4 figure and 6 figure grid references MapZone - Homework Help - Maptivity - Grid references

These might be useful one day.

This is interesting: Two photographers have traveled the world to meet "average" families and report on their dietary habits, then taken photos of the families with their weekly food totals. Link . Check it out!

An interesting little site that features representations of the world map with re-sized proportions - based on factors such as population, HIV prevalence and wealth: Here's a preview of one for purchasing power: Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before via Ian @ Amazing Grades

Did you know that every 6,000 miles a car travels, it produces its own weight in CO2? There are 30 million cars in the UK and each car is driven on average 9,000 miles a year. That's a lot of CO2 being pumped into our air. These photos show some examples of current electric hybrid models: Toyota Prius What are hybrid electric vehicles? Hybrid vehicles are powered by a combination of a petrol or diesel engine and electricity. This cuts down on the amount of fuel needed, meaning hybrid vehicles produce fewer emissions. and spend less on petrol. Most hybrids also use regenerative braking, which means that energy is put back into the battery when braking - this improves energy efficiency and reduces brake wear. Honda Insight What are the environmental benefits of hybrid electric vehicles? As well as producing fewer emissions, hybrid technologies improve fuel efficiency and therefore provide considerable fuel savings compared to a non-hybrid vehicle. Honda Civic Hybrid How much does i...

A plan to create a £24m wood-fuelled energy plant is closer to being built after securing more than £5m of government funding. If it goes ahead, the combined heat and power plant will be capable of heating 20,000 homes a year. The biomass scheme will use wood fibre to produce steam to make electricity. Heat generated during this process will be used to manufacture 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year, offering an alternative to fossil fuels, such as oil. The new plant will create around 30 local jobs. Full Story

Lots (one hundred) ways to conserve energy, use less water protect our air and create less rubbish. It's... 100 Ways to Save the Environment Huzzah for saving the environment!

Really useful links all about Climate Change. Includes latest news, a slideshow, what we can do to fight climate change, the impact climate change will have on us and the causes. More on climate change | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited Environment Really useful site with lots of information.

Tense anniversary in French suburbs Clichy-sous-Bois, is a drab suburb in the north-east of Paris, scene of the deaths of two local teenagers who died and sparked three weeks of rioting across France's largely immigrant suburbs. Cedric Lignier, 18 Clichy-sous-Bois If more was done to help youths, they would sell fewer drugs. But it’s difficult to get work. As soon as employers see our faces, they think we want to steal from them. I want to work! More comments and quotes here Map of Paris suburbs. More maps here . French police figures for the riots: 9193 cars burnt 2,921 arrests 21 nights of riots Read the full story here including a timeline and lots of other resources from the BBC website.

A supercell is a severe thunderstorm with a deep rotating updraft (called a mesocyclone). Check out these amazing photos of a supercell thunderstorm in Nebraska: May 28, 2004 Highway 12 Supercell-ne Nebraska More about supercells . More awesome storm pictures at extremeinstability.com

"Britain's biggest cave discovered "

Today, I have mostly been investigating... This site has lots of powerpoint resources here that are really amazing , including the rivers millionaire game , the car park geography catchphrase game , and the animation showing how stacks form . There's also a really in depth section called Juicy Geography's Google Earth page for teachers . Which is all about the fantastic Google Earth . Juicy Geography is a five star site!

Seed Magazine is cool. It's kind of like New Scientist , but easier to understand. Our overarching goal is the nurturing of a science-savvy global citizenry by increasing public interest in and understanding of science. Sounds good to me. Here's the best bit: Scientific issues and innovations seem to creep into everyday conversation more than ever before. Recognizing that we could all use some expertise in hot science topics, Seed offers its Cribsheet. They've got guides all about nuclear power , hybrid cars , avian flu , climate change and stem cells . Check them all out here: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/cribsheet/ All the files are available as either a handy GIF file or as a PDF. So, print them out to help with revision, or enlarge them and stick them on the wall! These Cribsheets are also really useful if you're just getting started on a topic and want to know the facts.

Britain is facing a chronic shortage of geophysicists as fewer students choose to study geophysical science at university and leading scientists in the field retire, a new study reveals. The problem has reached crisis point and if the current rates of decline continue there will be no geophysics undergraduates by 2030, the British Geophysical Association report warns. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Research | Report warns of earth scientists shortage

Find all the weird, cool, beautiful places on the planet with Google Earth. Google Earth Cool Places - famous buildings, beautiful places, weird land formations

The Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan peninsula are shown in this image acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite, on May 25th, 2006. The Aleutian Islands, with 57 volcanoes among them, are in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Stunning High Resolution Image (JPEG Image, 5600x4400 pixels)

Free sample GCSE question about rivers: GCSE Geog Physical 1 Example.pdf You have to buy the real papers, and they're between £5 and £7. This one is a free question about waterfalls and flooding , so it could be useful as a practice question in class. via www.examinationgroup.com

Nice Google Map showing information about active vocanoes: Active Volcanos - Google Maps API Example