Climate change

Climate scientists have measured the temperature and rainfall on every part of the Earth over many years. They look at the changes and predict the future with the information. The first map shows the temperature over 30 years. In most parts of the world, the temperature has increased by a few degrees and scientists think it will increase in the future.
The second map shows rainfall on the Earth over 30 years. The amount of rain is very different from region to region. Rainfall has increased in some countries and scientists think it will increase in the future. But rainfall has also decreased in other parts and, in these regions,
it won’t increase. It will decrease.
In conclusion, the changes in climate will continue in the next century. The Earth will feel hotter and rainfall will be higher for some places, but lower for others.

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Global fashion

Gillian Turner-Niles is a fashion photographer. She lives in New York and works in the fashion capitals of the world. You can see her photographs on the pages of fashion magazines across the world. Her clients include Gucci, Dior, Ferragamo, even the sports clothing company Nike. But today she’s talking to me by phone from the middle of Sudan. So, what is she doing there?‘I’m taking photographs, of course!’ She explains, ‘I’m not taking photographs for Vogue or anyone else. It’s like a holiday. In my business, it’s easy to forget there’s another world out there. And I like looking at clothes in a different way when I travel.’But in this world of global fashion, people all over the world wear the same clothes. The businessman’s suit in Beijing is like the businessman’s suit in Berlin. And jeans and T-shirts are almost a type of uniform these days.‘Yes, I think that’s true in the big international cities,’ Gillian says. ‘But I’m visiting regions in the world with their own traditional clothes and their own fashions. That’s especially true in this part of Africa.’

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Extreme sports

Lots of people do sport in their free time, but these people do extreme sports!

A Cliff diving

Cliff diving is a very exciting extreme sport and Cyrille Oumedjkane is an expert cliff diver. In this photo, he is in Kragero, Norway at the cliff diving world series. He can jump between twenty and thirty metres into the water feet first. (Normal divers jump from ten metres or less and they jump into the water head first.) He can jump from any high place. ‘I cliff dive because I don’t like soccer. I like the adrenaline,’ he says.

B Highlining

You can ‘highline’ in lots of different places, but mountains are popular. You put a line between two high places and walk across. In this photo, American Andy Lewis walks above a canyon in Utah, USA. It’s early evening so he can’t see well. Also the wind is strong so Andy can’t walk fast, but highlining is a great adventure.

C Mountain biking

Perhaps you often go cycling, but how well can you cycle across the top of a 1,000 metre mountain? Professional mountain biker Kenny Belaey cycles across South Africa’s Table Mountain in this photo. ‘The landscape is perfect,’ he says.

D Paragliding

In this photo Justin Ferrar flies above Fronalpstock in the mountains of Switzerland. The weather is perfect for paragliding and today it’s very peaceful. But paragliding isn’t normally relaxing! Extreme paragliders can fly over 3,000 metres high and very long distances (over 300 kilometres).

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