It's that time of the year again.

As we get closer to the holidays plan where the best beaches are in the UK. Click this link.

Summer Solstice 2010

It's the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere.
For an explanation click this link.

A bit of comedy!

Which is the most lazy mountain?

Mount Ever Rest.

Thanks to Year 7 for this comedy contribution.

If you have any other geographical jokes please feel free to share them.

Exams are upon us again!

Good luck in all your exams!

Eyjafjallajokull volcano

Hulme pupils witness the Eyjafjallajokull volcano first hand on the recent Geography Department trip to Iceland. Although still in the throat clearing stages of its eruption the sight was still spectacular. The party was able to visit the region during the excursion to the seaside town of Vik. Getting up really close would have involved a 6 hour ice trek up the galcier but the lack of crampons prevented anyone getting their eyebrows singed. Perhaps it was a lucky escape as the road was closed behind the bus on the return journey to Rejkavik .

Oil slick in pictures

Pictured above the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. To the East the Mississippi delta.
For more images of this environmental disaster click this link or this link.

For a different perspective check out the Basil and Spice blog.

Or follow recent developments on abc news

Earth Day

What can you do to be part of the global green economy?
For more details click this link.

The infamous ash cloud!

An image made available by NEODASS/University of Dundee which shows the volcanic ash plume from Iceland, top left, to the north of Britain as received by NASA's Terra Satellite at 11.39 GMT Thursday April 15, 2010. All flights in and out of the UK and several other European countries have been suspended as ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves south.

For more information from the BBC click this link.

Skipton Controlled Assessment

These maps may be useful for use in your controlled assessment. However, you must feel free to use any that you may have created or modified for yourself.

Saving the oceans?

The UK government has designated an area around the Chagos Islands as the world's largest marine reserve.
The reserve would cover a 544,000 sq km area around the Indian Ocean archipelago, regarded as one of the world's richest marine ecosystems.

For more details click this link.