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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...communication is needed to reach people. Activities are designed to help go beyond a dry intellectual knowledge of climate breakdown to enable some familiarity with the psychological challenges of recognising it as a serious threat to humans and millions of other species. The climate and ecological crisis is situated historically in three ways: deep (geological) time, the...
Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?

...Community in Croatia – a state-recognised organisation – bluntly rejects any type of extremism and prides itself on representing the most successful example of integration of Muslims within a European culture. Of course conservative and right wing circles argue that the military should be deployed to the borders but the government has bluntly refused this suggestion...
It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round
Society, Politics & Law

It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round

...communities affected by major mining projects, who are clamouring for better living standards and new curbs on the excesses of extractive industries. In addition, slow growth in China and recession in Brazil mean that the prospect of quick recovery of commodity prices and foreign investment looks uncertain. This means that the Argentine economy will struggle to return to...
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...communicate in more than a single tongue, explains Ingrid Piller...Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect of teacher expectations on student performance is...
How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region

...an unbelievable scale”. [The Conversation]As a direct result of Trump’s actions, what could have been a week of triumph as the international community came together to enact harsh sanctions on North Korea has instead perhaps drawn us one step closer to the tragedy Mattis predicted. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?

...communication regulator warns that your twinkling festive lights might be blocking your wifi signal. Really? Andrew Smith explains why it shouldn't keep you awake worrying...This content is associated with The Open University's Physics courses and qualifications. When Ofcom, the UK’s independent telephony regulator, released a wi-fi checker app for your smart phone,...
World must avert flood of climate refugees - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

World must avert flood of climate refugees - Climate News Network

...community to take some notice of them. “I raised it to make the problem more obvious – though I do not know why politicians continue to be so blind to it.” He said evidence of the impacts of climate change was plain to see: “You need only to fly over some of the areas that are being affected – like the Naga Hills on the border of India and Burma, or vast areas...
Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...community is needed to address the climate crisis. But when one million plastic bottles are bought every minute we can all certainly do our bit on an individual level to make our lifestyles more sustainable and change our consumption patterns so that businesses and governments have to adapt. We are more likely to do something if we feel it is important. Reading books...