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What caused the Myanmar earthquake - and why did it make a tower in Bangkok collapse? bbc.com/news/articles/c8d4dn…

Myanmar earthquake: What caused it and why did it make a building in Bangkok collapse?

The size of the earthquake and the length of the fault line it occurred on contributed to the devastation.

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Death toll passes 1,600 after Myanmar-Thailand earthquake as hundreds remain trapped under rubble

A rescue team in Mandalay, the city closest to the earthquake's epicentre, tells the BBC they "are digging people out with our bare hands".

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Why earthquake predictions are usually wrong bbc.com/news/articles/c247jq…

An earthquake prediction went viral. Is it giving people false hope?

On social media a self-proclaimed earthquake predictor says he can forecast big shakes, but experts say it's pure luck.

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UK men and women can expect to live longer, data show

Boys born in the UK in 2023 can expect to live on average to 86.7 years, and girls to 90, experts suggest.

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Global plastic talks collapse as oil states rebel bbc.com/news/articles/c785l1…

Global plastic talks collapse as oil states rebel

Two years of negotiations to reduce global plastic production have collapsed amid a split between countries.

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Cranedale trip Day 3- the staff just cannot think of anything for this. Over to you students, caption competition?
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Cranedale trip Day 3- measure the characteristics of succession. Measure what? It’s all covered in snow!
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Cranedale trip Day 3: the ice beach. We have never seen snow settle so close to the sea.
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Cranedale trip Day 3- fieldwork on Bridlington sand dunes. Yes, we are on the beach, nobody has seen one covered in snow before. Extremely challenging conditions, well done everyone on your resilience and perseverance.
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Day 3 Cranedale trip arrives at Bridlington in some very wintry conditions, there is the North Sea in the photos, but it cannot be seen. Fieldwork briefing uses a bus shelter to hide from the developing blizzard. Creative Geographers, as always.
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Cranedale trip Day 3 wakes up to some non-forecasted snow. By the time we are packing to leave the centre it is starting to fall pretty heavily.
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Cranedale Day 2- an Art tour of Scarborough. Can place characteristics be represented through its Art?
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Cranedale Day 2- Investigating urban regeneration around the harbour area of Scarborough
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Day 2 of the Cranedale trip wakes up to a very light dusting of snow. Where's the predicted downpour gone, Stratford-upon-Avon???
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Cranedale trip Day 1: All arrived in Yorkshire safely and collecting data on Malton as a market town.
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How Pakistan's melting glaciers destroy mountain villages

Climate change is altering the landscape of Pakistan's mountain regions, and changing lives forever.

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Fertility rate in England and Wales drops to new low

Just over 591,000 babies were born in the UK last year - the lowest number in four decades

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K.E.S. Geography retweeted
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Here is what a 15 foot hurricane storm surge looks like folks.

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