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Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network

...climate summit later this year aims to ensure that it is not breached. It appears that the human race has taken roughly 250 years to stoke global warming by 1°C. On present trends, we look likely to add the next 1°C far more quickly – across much of the world, many climate scientists believe, by the middle of this century. The research is published in the journal New...
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Convoy to Calais
Society, Politics & Law

Convoy to Calais

...climate change, from poverty, from war, from persecution, deserve to be treated with humanity. Nobody risks their lives and the lives of their family crossing the Mediterranean to try and get to a safe haven and start their lives again unless what they’re fleeing is much worse than what they’re facing. People are living in an absolute hellhole in those camps in...
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Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world
Nature & Environment

Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world

...change Vanishing nature You have probably heard that biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is being eroded away. Climate change, pesticides, deforestation and intensive farming all contribute to this downward trajectory. Butterflies have declined by 50% since the 1970s, with 8% of resident British species extinct, and 41% of the survivors now classed as threatened...
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How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?

...climate change and drought. Khat now ranks first in the list of cash crops in Yemen, with an average cultivated area of 166,557 hectares, out of a total cultivated land of approximately 1,172,000 hectares. Meanwhile, the total yield has reached nearly 190 thousand tons annually. Mohammed Al-Maroni, who works as a consultant of agriculture and rural development at the...
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Becoming a University of Sanctuary
Society, Politics & Law

Becoming a University of Sanctuary

...climate change, with the UNHCR reporting that extreme weather events are already inducing 23 million people to leave their homes each year. You belong somewhere, you belong to a certain cohort. You can identify as… not as a refugee, but as a student. Many forced migrants face substantial barriers to obtaining education in the UK. For example, while asylum claimants are...
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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...Climate Change and the Role of Education, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32898-6_13 Warwick, P. (2016) 'An integrated leadership model for leading education for sustainability in higher education and the vital role of students as change agents', Management in Education, 30(3), 105-111. Winter, J. Sterling, S. and Cotton, D. (2015) 7 Steps to Embedding...
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How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
Science, Maths & Technology

How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO

...climate change and reduce CO2 emissions have resulted in leniency on diesel cars – not only in public debates concerning the environment, but also in legislation. This is one of the reasons why the EU has followed a more lenient toxic emissions regime for diesel than petrol in recent years. Along the way, human health and the impact of toxic tailpipe emissions from...
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Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...climate change. Fossil fuel prices WindEurope, an offshore wind industry group, says that at the present rate of installations it’s likely Europe will be producing about seven per cent of its electricity from offshore wind by 2030. By some calculations, all this building work would seem to make little economic sense. Fossil fuel prices are low on the world market, and...
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