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Humans modify climate to a considerable extent. Modification can be on a variety of scales. Globally, since the turn of the 19th century human activity is believed to have modified the net global temperature...

There are physical conditions required for the formation of a glacial corrie to take place. For the processes to begin, snow must collect in a naturally occurring hollow on the side of a mountain. The hollow...

Land covered in concrete and buildings alters the albedo of a pace because dark colours will absorb, rather than reflect incoming sunlight. This creates 'urban heat islands' where temperatures are higher whe...

As there are many different components to globalisation, similarly you will need a sound knowledge of a variety of case studies which display an understanding of the many facets of globalisation. For example...

On Wallasea Island in Essex, salt marshes were created by flooding agricultural land there due to an excess of pressure on the estuary of the river Crouch that could ultimately lead to flooding. The salt mar...