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The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict
Nature & Environment

The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict

...climate change. This degradation has amplified to a serious degree after ISIS, with some areas witnessing conflict or being abandoned by farmers who fled, resulting in low levels of agricultural production, and the pollution of many areas. The fifth part of the report detailed concerns by communities. People, mainly residents of northern Iraq, raised bitter complaints...
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Article 5 mins
A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...change? Then enrol on this free course. [Blue banner says, in, out. Downing street is shaken all about] Liz Truss resigned after just 45 days – with Rishi Sunak taking her place – which made her the shortest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Meanwhile, the world’s richest man (at the time), Elon Musk, entered the world of social media, completing his...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...climate change, or sustainable growth require expertise from a range of subjects. Exploring everyday problems through the lens of different disciplines provides exciting opportunities to find ways in which subjects connect and influence each other. Flexible study has always been at the heart of the Open University. Our unique Open qualifications allow you to combine...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
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?

...climate change is making some disasters more devastating over time, there is good news from our findings. Governments, NGOs and private citizens have many tools available to foster horizontal and vertical connections. Nonprofits like the Australian Red Cross, BoCo Strong in Boulder, Colorado, and New Zealand’s Wellington Regional Emergency Management Organization now...
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Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...challenges across the next 20 years. But also honest to the fact that actually climate change particularly is probably driving more innovation across more sectors (architecture, fashion, design, engineering) than any single thing in the last 60 years with perhaps the exception of the internet. So optimism, pessimism, I hold them probably pretty evenly in each hand....
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Video 12 mins
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...climate change is a myth (it isn’t), people who read these are affected – presence in even the least reputable newspaper implies a veneer of truth, so readers’ beliefs may change or be hardened, or readers may feel offended, or ostracised. And that is bad for the world when the story is, in fact, junk, and its conclusions can lead to bad personal and policy...
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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...climate change and other environmental degradations raise the question of whether there are biophysical limits to economic activity. In Session 2, you will come across several different accounts of how the economy is conceptualised, whether and how economic inequality needs to be tackled, and whether economic growth is a useful policy objective. According to the classical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...climate change. Biofuel scientist What we have here is algae. Algae communicate by releasing chemicals, and the golden chalice is if we can find the chemical that they're producing that says to the other algae let's make more oil. John Craven But how close are you to this becoming anything like a commercial reality? Presenter What you're seeing in there is used cooking...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs