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Lara Buchanan

@mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social
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ECT Secondary Geography Teacher | L4 Sex and Relationships Educator | Photographer | Wirral 📍 linktr.ee/MrsBGeography

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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A really great podcast all about the recent East Russian earthquake and the associated tsunami warnings. Will definitely be giving this to students to have a listen to. #tectonics #earthquake #tsunami open.spotify.com/episode/50Su...
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Tsunami Warnings Across the Pacific
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Enjoyed incorporating some of the learnings from last weeks #GAConf25 into teaching tsunamis - looking to include alternative explanations to tsunamis 🌊
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On route to #GAConf25 looking forward to exploring Oxford for the first time too!!
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Globalisation was key to massively accelerating free market capitalism's destruction of the environment and exploding carbon emissions I look forward to its demise and the falling emissions that will hopefully result www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump tariffs come into effect in ‘seismic’ shift to global trade
‘Baseline’ 10% import levy takes effect at US seaports, airports and customs warehouses on Saturday, with some higher tariffs to begin next week
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
PGCE graduation this afternoon! #geographyteacher
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@GeoBlogs @geoblogs.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Flights leaving Bali cancelled after volcanic eruption shoots ash plume 8km into sky
Indonesia’s 1,700m Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted for 11 minutes on Thursday, causing ash cloud but no damage to nearby villages on the island of Flores
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Map shows uncontacted tribes in South America.
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today was the hardest teaching day I’ve had so far. This morning I was told about the death of my grandma, but chose to go into work (distraction always helps me). The students today have made me laugh on the day that the clouds feel dark. Feeling very grateful to be in this job! 🌪️🌤️
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Planned and successfully led my first school trip today to Liverpool Hope University with A Level sociologists. We had seminars about aspirations and wider links to feminism within the subject. A great day! #ECT #geographyteacher #sociology
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Steve Brace @stevebracegeog.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#Geographer Prof Narcisa Pricope, "The crop faced an “existential threat” because of increasingly dry conditions in cacao-producing areas. Action against aridity isn’t just about saving chocolate, it’s about preserving the planet’s capacity to sustain life” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis contributing to chocolate market meltdown, research finds
Scientists say more-frequent hotter temperatures in west African region are part of reason for reduced harvests and price rises
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... energy security alevel geography @jbwgeog.bsky.social
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Baltic states making historic switch away from Russian power
More than 30 years after leaving the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will join the EU's grid.
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@GeoBlogs @geoblogs.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
'We left pieces of our life behind': Indigenous group flees drowning island www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Climate change: The Panama community that fled its drowning island
Rising sea levels threaten an indigenous group's home in Panama, but not everyone wants to leave.
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Care story for #ChangingPlaces - Old Spitalfields Market, London. open.substack.com/pub/changing...
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Old Spitalfields Market
What kind of place is it?
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Looking at Immigration and international migration as a result of globalisation. Great one to look at for #ALevel #PopulationandEnvironment open.substack.com/pub/dredfern...
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Immigration
A two-part post – firstly, statements of background; secondly, a Q&A assessed
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Following on, looking at the trend in disaster-related deaths in 2024 comparative to 2000-2023 open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...
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How many people died in disasters in 2024?
Less than last year since there were very few catastrophic earthquakes.
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
An interesting read on global crop production and yield in 2024. Looking at some of the impacts of a changing climate. open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...
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How much food did the world produce in 2024?
Many staples look to be on track for a record year.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
There is almost no chance now of saving the Greenland Ice Sheet, nor the West Antarctic Ice Sheet for that matter This locks-in a ~12m sea level rise, which will eventually drown every coastal town and city But do our 'leaders' care - do they even know? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Full circle moment today. Back when I was in Y8 I fell in love with geography because of a unit of work about the Maasai tribe in Kenya 🇰🇪. Today I began a unit with my Y8s looking at indigenous communities across the world. I can’t wait to show them the best of geography. 🌏
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Sharon Robinson @antarcticmoss.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth theconversation.com/study-shows-...
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Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth
An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.
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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This is an excellent piece of geographical writing on the realities, vs perception of, place. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #GeogChat
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Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, ‘tourism pollution’ seems the only viable plan
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NSGeolegend @nsgeolegend.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Yr 13 Edexcel A'Level Geography Superpowers & Health, human rights and intervention. BBC News - China to build world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet www.bbc.com/news/article...
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China to build world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet
The project has stoked concerns about displacement and environmental impact downstream in India and Bangladesh.
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Finished my first term as an ECT today. It’s been the most wonderful term at the most wonderful school. Feeling very grateful ☺️ #ECT #geographyteacher
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Loved exploring this GIS showing levels of disadvantage vs P8 across the UK. I’m sure there’s an NEA study in there somewhere looking at the distribution. Check it out here: teacher-training.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
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Map Viewer
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Five African economies have a combined GDP of $1.4 trillion, accounting for half of the continent's total economy. The remaining 48 African countries also have a combined GDP of $1.4 trillion, highlighting the stark economic divide within the continent.
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thinking about class wealth - is it now dependent on the bank of mum and dad? Great conversation here: youtu.be/cWBqU9HVahg?...
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How the Bank of Mum and Dad is creating a new class system
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Teaching A Level Sociology this year alongside geography and so getting back into all things sociological from my University days. Moving on to think about the role of gender and educational underachievement- thought I’d start here! Any other reading recommendations - let me know! #EduChat
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Just seen this shared - a wonderful graphic on the layers of the rainforests @roundglass.bsky.social
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Excitingly, my first blog post for the GA was published today! All about the practical use of AI in the secondary geography classroom! Let me know what you think! #geographyteacher ga-blog.org/2024/12/03/f...
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Four ways to use Artificial Intelligence in the geography classroom - The GA Blog
Lara Buchanan provides four ways that artificial intelligence can be used to enhance your geography lessons...
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Lara Buchanan @mrsbuchanangeog.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Made it to London for our Christmassy weekend
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