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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...climate change and resulting extreme weather events are an increasing and serious threat to the Earth’s ecosystems. This free course, Climate Change and Renewable Energy, describes the basic science of the greenhouse effect and how it has been modified by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels. It describes the large cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...Climate change, takes on the task of trying to chart some of the ways in which it might be possible...Human societies have to take urgent action to end their dependences on fossil fuels. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both environmentally adaptable and sustainable. This free course, Climate change,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...climate change. [Construction site, sky full of cranes] What is the built environment? Our built environment includes physical objects such as buildings, roads and pavements, sewerage treatment works and landfill sites. It also plays an essential role in our social world, providing us with shelter and warmth, belonging and protection, connections and barriers, and a sense...
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Article 10 mins
Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...climate change the kale smoothie of TV schedules: unappealing but somehow fashionable and even essential to the diet? ...[Kale Smoothie cartoon, society matters] Climate change has a reputation for being the kale smoothie of the television schedules: unappealing but also a somehow fashionable and even essential element of the diet. Disguise it in a fancy glass? Drink it...
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Article 10 mins
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...climate change’s triple risk to Europe. The heat is on, lives are at risk and the floods are arriving earlier...[Emergency pumps at work on England’s River Parrett in the 2014 floods.] Emergency pumps at work on the River Parrett in the 2014 floods. Researchers have just issued three separate climate warnings to the citizens of Europe on the same day, in three...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...climate change − and that the dangers are growing...[Malaysian labourer pushing a trolley with corrugated metal on it in the heat. ] Heat stress is an increasing risk for poor labourers working outdoors in countries such as Malaysia The massive economic and health losses that climate change is already causing across the world are detailed in six scientific papers...
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Article 10 mins
On the inside of the rebellion against climate change
Nature & Environment

On the inside of the rebellion against climate change

...climate change and civilizational collapse. Following a bout of kidney stones since then I made contact with a local XR group and joined the rebellion in London on Monday 15th, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th 2019. As a psychologist, XR raises profound questions for me in terms of the value of social sciences relative to the existential crisis faced by humanity, and what...
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Article 10 mins
Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility

...climate change is increasingly well-known, but it can be hard to understand its effects in human terms. Professor David Humphreys describes how he experienced Climate Change first hand when working in Bangladesh for The Open University...[Geography matters climate change Bangladesh] Climate change will affect everyone......
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Article 10 mins