BSES Expeditions

Follow ECSC students on their British Schools Exploring Society travels this summer.
Click on Amazon 08, Svalbard 08 and Ladakh 08.

A Day in the Life of a Japanese Child

Find out more about japanese culture here.

Easy steps to a eco friendly home

Have a look at these ideas from Homebase.

Climate change in UK

This site is about our changing climate and how it affects our lives, from the buildings we live and work in, to the way we travel, the holidays we take and the food we buy in the shops.

Garden Design

Click on 'Changing Blooms' and build your own interactive city garden, meadow or pond. There are there games on this site.

Where is Matt dancing ?

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

How well do you know your world ?

Try this geography quiz.

Quake Mapping

Click here to see map of latest activity.

Click here to see the world distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes.

Search goes on after Japan quake

View some photos of the effects of the latest 7.2 earthquake to hit Japan.

Planet green game

China evacuates quake lake area.

Parts of China devastated by a deadly earthquake two weeks ago have been hit by powerful aftershocks that have destroyed more than 420,000 homes.
Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes that happen after a main quake in the same area.
They hit the Sichuan region as up to 160,000 people were being moved from villages near a newly formed lake as its water level continues to rise.
Millions of people are thought to be at risk if the lake bursts its banks. The lake's water level is rising by more than one metre per day.

Read more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7420000/newsid_7422900/7422922.stm

Sichuan Earthquake response

More than 50,000 people are feared dead, missing or buried beneath rubble of buildings devastated by a 7.9 magnitude quake in central China’s Sichuan province on Monday.

Seismologists say the two minutes of horrific shaking that destroyed entire towns was caused by two distinct shifts of the Longmenshan Fault, which stretches southwest to northeast across Sichuan. A 60-mile-long and 18-mile-wide section of the fault initially dropped about 23 feet.
Then another section, about 90 miles long and 18 miles wide, to the northeast of the first section sheared about 13 feet a few seconds later.

Here are some details about the response made to help the people of Sichuan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=566765&in_page_id=1811

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7397838.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1968206/China-earthquake-The-homeless.html

The Amazon - the latest

View the causes and extent of Amazon deforestation

Benidorm - new ecotourism destination

Benidorm has changed from the sleepy fishing village to a major Spanish resort.
Read more here from the BBC

Junky Styling

Year 9 think about restyling your clothes .

China V Burma

Two disasters, contrasting reactions.Two Asian countries reeling from the horror of tens of thousands of people probably dead and hundreds of thousands more made destitute and homeless. Find out more from CBBC.

Infusion comes to Blackpool

Infusion is the world’s first suspended, looping rollercoaster completely over water, giving riders a whole new experience.
Blackpool tourist information.
http://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/
http://www.blackpooltourism.com/

Hollywood stars on our doorstep.

A £300m film studio and education complex is planned for our home region.
It aims to make East Durham a location for national and international film-making and bring a significant level of investment to the area with huge employment benefits.

Thousands evacuated as Chile volcano spews ash

A volcano has erupted in southern Chile, scattering ash over the surrounding area and forcing more than 4,000 people to leave their homes.

All 4,000 inhabitants of Chaiten have been evacuated to nearby towns and cities, leaving only a skeleton crew of police, military and government officials to protect the abandoned properties.

A few locals have stubbornly refused to leave their city, which looks like a ghost town in television reports.

Angel and Wall in landmark victory

The Angel of the North is now the UK's most recognised landmark by Britons. Travelodge challenged 3,000 Britons to identify photographs of UK landmarks old and new. Just over 60% knew they were looking at the Roman Wall.