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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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Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...climate change in the future. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science. Science: from the lab to Second Life and across the world We talk to Sue Stocklmayer from the Australian National University about the joys and pitfalls of international science communication; and to Rough...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...climate change. (iv) Personal beliefs approaches to decision making There are many other personal theories and beliefs around decision making, based on an individual’s experiences of decisions. Here are just a few: ‘... toss a coin to make the decision, if you then want to make it the best of three you know which decision you want to make’ ‘... always dismiss the...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...climatic change associated with the waxing and waning of ice sheets during the last 2.6 million years, as well as tectonic events such as the uplift of mountains. (4) Random placement of species geographic ranges on a bounded map (the world) produces a peak in species richness near the centre of the domain, and such geometric effects may explain regional–global richness...
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Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...Climate change is a long-term danger to the city and a ‘malign threat’ is particularly posed by water: we face an era of floods and droughts. Sennett proposes the ‘adaptive berm’ to think about how to plan for this new world – a flexible accommodation of rising sea levels. Adjusting to nature rather than dominating it, the task is to live with the inevitability...
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The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...climate change, land use change and external inputs such as nitrogen deposition also can affect invasion further by influencing any of the above three categories listed. What can be done to tackle invasive species? Controlling invasive alien species involves: prevention of establishment as a first step; and if establishment has already occurred, follow-up eradication....
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How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...change coming down the pike for emergency management (climate change, and aging or neglected infrastructure seem like contenders as well), but with the increasing informatization of more and more infrastructure, it seems impossible that cyber security won’t play a major role in the field moving forward. “Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Two.” Any engineer or project manager...
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The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...climate change, novel entities, and biogeochemical flows.] Figure 1 - Breaching our planetary boundaries. Source: Steffen et al, 2015 This is not merely a story about carbon emissions (the driver of the greenhouse effect, and therefore global heating), but about all the ways in which our economy interacts with the earth, it extracts and transforms energy and matter to...
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