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Environment and Sustainable Development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Nature & Environment

Environment and Sustainable Development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...energy, and that the UK’s membership has allowed it to drive international action on conservation and climate change, whereas opponents argue that many of the EU’s problems are caused by its defective policies on farming, fishing and localism. The debate in today’s third session will focus on the EU’s environmental track record and future plans for green growth,...
Being Sustainable(ish)
Nature & Environment

Being Sustainable(ish)

...Jen's own words: 'We're often short on time, energy, and sometimes sanity, and to top it off eco-anxiety is creeping in. You want easy ideas for doable changes you can make, not another ball to juggle, labelled "save the planet"'. Transcript Questions and Answers Transcript [Aerial view of a forest] For more ideas on living sustainably, click on the banner above...
Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?
Nature & Environment

Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?

...energy honey bees generate while flying and visiting flowers. Bumble and honey bees, along with butterflies, moths and hoverflies perform much of the pollination that is essential for us to grow food. Unfortunately, since World War II, these insects have seen dramatic global population declines – numbers of some British bumblebees are down as much as 70%. There are lots...
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...energy land', 'bioproductive sea' and 'bioproductive land'. A city's EF is enormously larger than the area of the city itself. It has been estimated, for example, that the area of land and sea required to feed continuously, supply forest products, accommodate, and absorb the carbon dioxide (CO²) produced by London's 7 million inhabitants living their current lifestyles,...
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60-Second Adventures in Astronomy
Science, Maths & Technology

60-Second Adventures in Astronomy

...Energy Who'd have thought Albert Einstein could make a mistake? Dark Energy explores how Einstein was right all along about the expanding Universe. We never should have doubted him. Black Holes Is it possible to make your own black hole? DIY experts take note. Taking a Galactic Census How do you take a census in space? Find out how it is possible to produce a 3D map of...
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...energy? BH: I guess in the mid-1980s I got interested in the issues to do with energy and climate actually, I was already became aware as a consequence of a US Department of Energy Assessment of CO2 on climate change and energy that was referred to me by scientists at the CSIRO at that time in Australia that I began to wonder about the whole problem of climate change. RH:...
Should we be worried about the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we be worried about the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement?

...energy needs from renewable sources by 2020 and is even considered a “renewable energy paradise”. Renewable energy initiatives in most other countries are pale by comparison. The US has very different reasons to withdraw from the Paris climate deal. Trump wants a deal “on terms that are fair to the United States” and his reason for withdrawing from the deal is...
The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System

...energy from sunlight. The basis of the food-chain in these ecosystems is bacteria that use chemical energy from the hydrothermal vents to convert carbon dioxide into sugars and other biologically useful molecules, a role normally fulfilled by photosynthesis in plants on the Earth’s surface. Studies using data from the Cassini mission have shown that some of the...