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Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...work on England’s River Parrett in the 2014 floods.] Emergency pumps at work on the River Parrett in the 2014 floods. Researchers have just issued three separate climate warnings to the citizens of Europe on the same day, in three different journals – a triple risk salvo. One group warns that, if humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever-increasing rate, heatwave...
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Article 5 mins
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...social responsibility, or in work of any sort. Related to this last point, it is conspicuously not the centrepiece of landed wealth – it is not standing in a place of eminence, embedded within its own estate and associated farms which would be visibly providing the income for the upkeep of the house. Carrying this thought a little further suggests forcibly that the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...working for the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and many others, filming for series like The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Ocean Giants and Operation Iceberg. His photographic awards include seven Emmy’s and five BAFTA’s. He has twice won the underwater category in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and has three Honorary Doctorates in...
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Video 35 mins
The UK votes out: Instant reaction
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out: Instant reaction

...social policy, University of Kent What should EU immigrants in the UK do now? We’re told the 1979 UN Vienna convention will protect the current rights of those already in the country but that is unclear. The convention protects the position of governments under agreements, not individuals, and is not ratified by France. Those wishing to come to the UK in the future can...
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Article 10 mins
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...social and environmental apocalypse will cause the collapse of existing infrastructure and telecommunications will be back to pencil and paper or something even more primitive. As many people have pointed out, it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future. Hamza Bendemra Research engineer, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National...
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Article 5 mins
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...worked with Mary Douglas, what did she mean by this? Adam Kuper: Well, I think Mary Douglas would have made a strong distinction between the dirty and the unclean. So the dirty is something physical and the unclean is not necessarily physical, it's not necessarily mud on your boots, it's polluting in some kind of sense, more a spiritual problem. And for a number of human...
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Article 30 mins
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...working in entirely new ways with their media. I think that we hope that a whole range of people will find this material useful. Of course we, as scholars, have found it fantastically interesting, historians, geographers, environmental researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this...
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Video 12 mins
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: Life in the trees: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the common features shown by tree-dwelling mammals from different groups show an awareness of the difficulties of classifying primates,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs