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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...solar radiation through the process of evapotranspiration, providing additional shade, reducing air and surface temperatures around trees. With climate change expected to increase sea levels and extreme weather events, the ability of trees to intercept up to 30% of rainfall (Woodland Trust, 2021) and reduce run off, will be crucial to flood prevention. As trees provide a...
Eid al-Fitr
History & The Arts

Eid al-Fitr

...solar year. As a result, each year Eid-al-Fitr and the other major Muslim festivals are 10 or 11 days earlier than the previous year; unlike, for example, Christmas, which is calculated according to the Gregorian solar calendar and therefore always occurs at the same point in the year. [Palestinian women prepare traditional cookies ahead of the Eid al-Fitr...
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My career goal: Environment
Nature & Environment

My career goal: Environment

...energy? Find out how you can gather skills and carry out work that will have a real impact on our relationship with the environment...This video explores the conflicts of interest between local people, visitors, quarrying and farming in the Peak District National Park. Park Rangers often try to resolve disagreements such as these. Transcript icould links icould is a site...
The Large Hadron Collider
Science, Maths & Technology

The Large Hadron Collider

...energy collisions will reveal. The audio tracks feature Dr Stephen Serjeant and Dr David Broadhurst from The Open University and Dr Dan Faircloth and Dr Bruce Kennedy from the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. They share their passion for this immense machine that will recreate, on a tiny scale, conditions that existed just after...
How do social networks play a key role in disaster recovery?
Society, Politics & Law

How do social networks play a key role in disaster recovery?

...energy policy in Japan by pushing local residents to pursue non-nuclear options. Many communities have started electricity cooperatives where they use geothermal, solar and wind to produce their power. What saved lives during the tsunami? A Japanese colleague and I hoped to learn why the mortality rate from the tsunami varied tremendously. In some cities along the coast,...
Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)
Science, Maths & Technology

Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)

...energy rate, cold forming technique that reshapes metals without physical contact. When an electric current generates pulsed opposing magnetic fields near the metal, a controllable pressure is created...Three main concepts [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)' - see article ] Bulging or expansion ring [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...energy-saving light bulb itself. Examples of the latter might include solar panels – a radical way of generating domestic electricity, but currently only having incremental impacts because of costs, energy pricing policies and time lag of adoption in the UK. The different categories of innovation are often represented using ‘S’-curves...Organisations, environmental...
Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)
Science, Maths & Technology

Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)

...energy into molten material (1/5 of the energy of plasma arc and 1/9 of the energy of flame processes). Although plasma arc has a high capital cost and high operating cost, and requires complicated support services, it is the most versatile of the thermal spray processes, giving excellent coating properties with almost any material. The high operating temperatures...