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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...energy prices continue to roar] Martin Lewis warned us that soaring energy bills were a 'national crisis' on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the soaring didn’t end there!), US politician Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, despite discouragement from allies in the Biden administration, and the Horniman museum in London agreed to return its Benin Bronzes to Nigeria,...
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...energy use is the main component, for travel it is car travel and flights, and for everything else the main components are use of services like health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income,...
Prospecting for water on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Prospecting for water on the Moon

...Solar System. These areas act as vast ‘cold traps’: many chemical substances such as water, other ices and organic compounds delivered to the Moon by asteroid and comet impacts would migrate to the poles and accumulate there in a permanent deep freeze. Our Moon may therefore be witness to billions of years of history of water and other important molecules in the...
What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...solar ultraviolet light stripping hydrogen from molecules of methane, which then link together to form long chains of tar-like substances called tholins. These form tiny particles, and those that settle to the ground help to give it a reddish stain, but why there are so many layers in the atmosphere, we don’t know. Below is a spectacular simulated view (compiled from...
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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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,...
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...