Financial Times IB Geography Class
Richard Allaway writes near-weekly articles for the Financial Times IB Geography Class, each paired with exam-style questions that get students thinking as they read. This page brings them together, organised by syllabus unit and ranked by date, so you can quickly find pieces for any part of the IB DP Geography course.
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Geographic perspectives: global change
- Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once
- Five ways demographics are transforming the world economy
- Why China’s women are having fewer babies
- Morocco’s ‘Gen Z’ activists renew protests
- Chile’s plummeting births take fertility rate below Japan’s
- Japan’s population crisis reaches tipping point
- China adviser pushes for lower marriage age to boost births
- The baby gap: why governments can’t pay their way to higher birth rates
- Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards
- Asia’s ageing population could deliver a ‘silver dividend’
- South Korea bets on foreign housekeepers to ease women’s workloads and boost birth rate
- Marriage holds key to Japan’s falling births
- Pandemic blamed for falling birth rates across much of Europe
- Warming seas are brewing extreme weather in months ahead, scientists forecast
- The world is struggling to halt climate change. But can it adapt?
- Arctic sea ice hits record March low as global powers eye shipping routes
- How climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine map
- ‘We’re running out of time’: UN warns of 3.1C temperature rise
- Europe must push for low CO₂ bread, says fertiliser group chief
- Alarm raised on sea level rise and ocean warming as Pacific Islands leaders meet
- Warmer, wetter, hotter, drier — February caps unending stretch of record temperatures
- Ski industry navigates new terrain to fend off threat of climate change
- From human urine to worm manure: unusual fertilisers boosted by Gulf conflict
- India and the true cost of coal | FT Film
- Japan approves restart of world’s biggest nuclear power plant
- Rethinking the energy transition
- Africa’s energy inequality: the challenge of bringing affordable, reliable access
- ‘Sunbelt’ countries from India to Mexico tipped to overtake in clean industry development
- Britain boosts electricity exports to France because of high winds
- UAE’s Taqa seeks to shine with solar energy push
- India’s energy demands to grow more than those of other countries, says IEA chief
HL extension: global interactions
- The power struggle in the world’s narrow seas
- Donald Trump’s Iran war withers Kenya’s roses and strands its tea
- Why Trump can’t build iPhones in the US
- How Greenland got caught in a clash of superpowers
- UK gives Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure military base
- Christmas shipments rush risks deepening supply chain crisis, warns Maersk boss
Geographic themes
- Africa’s largest dam triggers alarm down the Nile
- Brussels tells EU capitals to cut water use by 10% in face of droughts
- When is a natural disaster human-made?
- More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds
- Are you up to the 2-minute shower challenge?
- Cities harness nature in the fight against flooding
- Spain’s deadly floods
- Dubai battles flood waters as historic storm causes chaos
- ‘New climate reality’ stretches global freshwater supply
- AI boom sparks concern over Big Tech’s water consumption
- Oil majors return to Alaska as US state becomes ‘world’s hottest play’
- School IB Geography class: Oil majors return to Alaska as US state becomes ‘world’s hottest play’
- Shipping lines go cool on Arctic Ocean route
- Canada races to secure its Arctic frontier
- Denmark raises investment in Arctic surveillance to counter Russian build-up
- Iran war risks global food shock as fertiliser supplies cut
- Deluge revives concerns about European food price rises
- Can vertical farming overcome its growing pains?
- Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon
- Malnutrition crisis threatens child health gains, warns Bill Gates
- UK becomes first European country to approve lab-grown meat
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