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Neither land nor sea
Nature & Environment

Neither land nor sea

...climate change. Human beings are as much a part of this environment and landscape as are the sea and the mountains. This Learning Journey explores the multiple interrelationships between the coast and the people of the archipelago. It does this through supporting text, images and other materials. It focuses on the residents of one small island, Nain Pulau (Nain Island),...
Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Nature & Environment

Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

...climate change Dr Barbara Pizzileo discusses the challenges facing academics in tackling the issue of global warming. Discovering Ecological Habits of Mind Dr Emma Dewberry highlights the relationship between design thinking and ecology in regard to how design may redefine the nature of production and consumption. From Awareness to Action Professor Godfrey Boyle evaluates...
Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool

...climate change Why elaborate mathematical modelling is needed to predict ice break-up in Antarctica. A vibrating lake Using mathematical modeling to understand the fluctuations in the surface levels of Lake Wakatipu. Why is maths useful? How the behaviour of the world around us can be understood better through mathematics. Who invented Calculus? The birth of calculus...
El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink
Nature & Environment

El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink

...climate change. Oxfam says the effects of this year’s strong El Niño should remind world leaders that they will need to continue to take strong climate action if they are to keep global warming to less than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. December 2015’s Paris Agreement, reached at the UN climate talks in the French capital, aims to keep the world below 1.5°C....
Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...climate change awareness. This topic too provides a methodological test case, because aesthetic experience eludes scientific or cognitive dominated methodologies; also because climate change is so painful to face that it needs methods going beyond denial, disavowal and projection. Free association narrative interviews encourage associations that help go beyond...
London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi
Nature & Environment

London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi

...climate change, the Institute stresses. Visibility problem This is a time of year when swathes of the most populated parts of the planet suffer choking pollution. But despite the clouds of smog, it says, too often this is an invisible problem. And even when it is in clear sight, finding reasons not to act is often easy. Another Asian capital with an unenviable record for...
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is lead author of the World Bank Turn Down the Heat reports and the IPCC AR4. His work has been recently published in Nature Climate Change, Nature, Climatic Change, Regional Environmental Change, Climate Policy. Climate Analytics ......
Earth's physical resources: renewable energy
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth's physical resources: renewable energy

...climate change, we explore whether sustainable energy can satisfy our need for endless economic growth, without radical changes in the way we live. This album examines power sources which provide cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels, such as wind power, biomass, hydro power, wave and tidal power, solar and geothermal power. The nine video tracks introduce the different...