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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...climate change are among the top causes. According to the IPBES findings, investing in avoiding degradation and restoring degraded land makes financial sense – the short-term gains from activities that lead to degradation are small in comparison to the value of what is lost in the degradation. The loss of fully functional soils is critical in many ways. Perhaps most...
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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...climate change; cloning and genetic medical research; and the MMR vaccine. The study analysed the way the media covered the MMR controversy in 561 articles over a seven-month period. Then two nationally representative surveys were carried out in April and October 2002, with the stated aim of investigating how public understanding could be seen as reflecting the nature of...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...climate change, you can look at it and you can just take the subject in a different way. I had an idea for climate change in the Arctic, for example, where if you look at it slightly simplistically, as things gets warmer it actually gets better for polar bears. If you want to create a good habitat for bears to hunt seals through the winter, then stick an oilrig in the...
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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...climate change and the rising temperature. I would like to think that I would do that because I think it’s important, but I would enjoy it as much. Our changing planet: The obligations of a public service broadcaster I think that the network controller should say, ‘I must have a rounded and widespread variety of programmes that deal with the natural world, and of...
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How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...climatic changes) through the study of tree ring growth. Here she gives Ever Wondered her expert perspective on what tree rings can tell us about ourselves...[A dead tree on the coast] "Time flashes by. We are here for just a moment and then we’re part of history. My lifetime probably won’t last beyond 100 years if I’m lucky. But did you know that something we see...
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Soil as the book of nature
Nature & Environment

Soil as the book of nature

...climate change and having grave consequences for life on earth. What's being done? As the concern on soils has come to the forefront of public awareness, national and international bodies are moving towards legislation and action. For example, the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) recently published a revised strategy on soils....
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...climate change. He then went on to help BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman research his best-selling book The English. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is Ade Thomas and I am the founder of Green.TV which is an online platform for publishing sustainability, clean tech and conservation video content. This is what I do So, Green.TV’s mission is to communicate...
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How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift, significant changes to our lifestyles – some much more...
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