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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...climate change make it more difficult to grow the food in the locations where it has typically been grown?’, and even, ‘will the food we grow provide adequate nutrition to keep those who eat it healthy’? This is something agricultural biodiversity has the potential to help with. There’s a tendency by some to look at the crops that were grown in the past as out of...
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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...climate change, food insecurity, water shortages and the wish to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels to biofuels. Land acquisition, or ‘land grab’ as it is often called, offers important lessons about the way that environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues at an increasingly global scale. The issue illustrates how everyday...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...climate change have led millions of people across the world to flee their homes, in search of a safer, better life elsewhere: 65.6 million people are displaced from home today (UNHCR). Developing countries in fact host 80% of the world’s refugees. Political debate and media coverage, however, focus overwhelmingly on the ways in which migration affects the richer,...
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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...climate change is a hoax” Deodorant, vitamin E, chips, tomatoes increase chances of developing cancer. Are genetically-modified crops ‘Frankenstein’ foods? The first two went viral on Facebook in the run up to the 2016 United States elections and gained so much attention that the news outlet BuzzFeed published an analysis on how they had outperformed real news on...
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The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers to modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers to modern slavery

...climate change. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), by the end of 2022, 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced as refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced people (IDPs). Not only does it mean that 1 in every 74 people worldwide was forced to flee, but it also shows a steady increase year on year since 2012. This is a worrying trend, in particular...
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Rock Clocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Rock Clocks

...changes in the Earth’s climate, and if we can date the rocks accurately we can work out the rate of climate change. Rocks also record catastrophic events and through dating we can work out exactly when these were, and figure out what else might have been happening at the same time. For example, we know from the fossil record in the rocks that there was a mass extinction...
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The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...climate change. This mounting critique of the sharing economy is partly borne out of the frustration that activists, academics and many other citizens feel when they look back at the early 2000s’ euphoria about the capacity of the sharing economy as the ‘third perspective on capitalism and consumerism’ (Heinrichs 2013) to minimise resource use, disrupt mainstream...
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The environmental costs of Trump’s wall
Nature & Environment

The environmental costs of Trump’s wall

...climate change. Equally, in the much longer term, if or when the next ice age eventually begins and ice sheets start to expand southwards, species from the north of the wall will need to move south to escape the freezing temperatures. The Trump wall will pose a significant obstacle for such movements. On evolutionary timescales of millions of years, such an obstacle in...
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