Happy New Year!

Welcome to the new Year 12 geographers, and welcome back to those of you continuing into Year 13.

Try and make use of the blog as much as you can - the labels at the bottoms of posts will take you back to previous posts on a particular topic, so use those as well as the recent posts.

For shorter and more frequent geographical gems (usually news stories) you can follow geogtastic on Twitter @geogtastic.

If you don't have the code for the Edmodo group www.edmodo.com, let me know and I'll make sure you have the details you need to sign up.

There's still time to enter the Young Geographer of the Year Competition... See post below for more details...

Yr13 - a couple of Ecosystems bits and pieces...

News article from the BBC about urban trees helping migrating birds (link to the wildlife corridor concept) here.

And after my comment on Twitter about hoping that you lot were watching the One Show last night, I am now being followed by an environmental consultancy who seem to like eating Japanese Knotweed. Make of that what you will. Their website is here.