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Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency
Nature & Environment

Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency

...energy demand and associated carbon emissions is, therefore, a key strategy that has been highlighted by the UK Committee on Climate Change and is acknowledged in the Government’s recent heat and buildings strategy. However, 20-30% (that's over ten million homes) of the UK housing stock have heritage value. Many of these buildings aren’t officially designated, meaning...
Can eating seaweed and algae keep the world fed?
Nature & Environment

Can eating seaweed and algae keep the world fed?

...energy to do so, leaving less energy for growth and reproduction. Consequently, they up smaller in size. Aside from the impact this has on shellfish, several of the species affected, such as corals in the tropics or coralline algae in the waters around the UK, also play a key role in providing food and nursing grounds for fish. And less fish food leads to fewer fish for...
Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...energy and loss of interest in an activity. Secondly, feelings of low personal accomplishment and low self-esteem leading to a decrement in performance. Thirdly, depersonalisation and devaluation, where an individual starts caring less about their sport and what was originally important to them. Keep on running! [two male footballers running on the pitch] Football is an...
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...energy he expends. These tools bring an apparent precision: Nash can quantify the calories in each cracker crunched and stair climbed. But when it comes to weight gain, he finds that not all calories are equal. How much weight he gains or loses seems to depend less on the total number of calories, and more on where the calories come from and how he consumes them. The...
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...energy to make the whole thing work. For almost all of the Earth's ecosystems the ultimate source of energy is light from the sun. Activity 3 Timing: 0 hours 15 minutes This section has introduced a number of terms and definitions: for example, ecology, ecosystem, organism, environment, habitat. Some, perhaps all, of these words may be new to you. One way to record them...
Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...energy experts, Paul Stevens, a senior research fellow at the London-based Chatham House thinktank, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Present management strategies within the oil majors have failed to deliver value to shareholders, and profits are declining sharply, Stevens says. Impact on climate Meanwhile, growing public and governmental concerns over fossil...
The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...energy, but that is not always good: if we eat more calories than we use in a day, the leftovers will be stored in our bodies in the form of fat. However, their delicious sweet taste might tempt us to eat one more biscuit, just one more bite. Back in the day when people did not have much to eat, a food rich in sugars was a treasure: consuming it would give you enough...
Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
Science, Maths & Technology

Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood

...energy to do so, leaving less energy for growth and reproduction. Consequently, they up smaller in size. Aside from the impact this has on shellfish, several of the species affected, such as corals in the tropics or coralline algae in the waters around the UK, also play a key role in providing food and nursing grounds for fish. And less fish food leads to fewer fish for...