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The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...Source: Global Invasive Species Database (http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/) What are the impacts of invasive alien species? The negative impacts of invasive alien species could be direct or indirect. Invasive species could directly impact native species through herbivory or predation; acting as vectors of disease transmission; or even physically damaging local...
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Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?
Digital & Computing

Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?

...source who had participated in the drafting of the regulation told Wall Street Journal (via China Digital Times): No one in China will have trouble visiting whitehouse.gov. The White House will not have to submit network access information to the authorities, because it has nothing to do with China […] Still, the rule could affect larger foreign companies that have or...
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COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...sources: Edinburgh and Glasgow top UK list of green space cities - BBC News Glasgow: Our Dear Green Place glasgow.gov.uk Glasgow Today and Tomorrow | Scotland on Screen Graffiti and litter lead to more street crime | New Scientist Health_in_a_changing_city_Glasgow_2021_-_report.pdf (gcph.co.uk) leq-2020-report-final-041220.pdf (keepscotlandbeautiful.org) Neighbourhood...
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Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...Source: CityWire/Lipper Behind the boom The fall has continued despite factors that would normally have scared buyers and forced yields higher to attract investment. These include the UK’s ever-rising debt: it is now at 86% of GDP, up from 36% in 2007, caused by a budget deficit that started to widen again this year. A slowdown in GDP growth (to just 0.3% in the second...
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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

...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 produce the things we need (and, more unsustainably, want). The earth can only sustainably reproduce about 7...
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Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...sources Advance Care Planning, An initial guide to getting them right RCGP Learning - SUPPORTING INFORMAL CARERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Carer's Week - Covid-19 pandemic: 4.5 million become unpaid carers in a matter of weeks Unseen and undervalued - Unseen and undervalued The value of unpaid care provided to date during the COVID-19 pandemic November 2020...
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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...sources, 42% of adult prisoners report having been permanently excluded from school. Out of 101,600 learners, under the previous OLASS (Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service) contracts for prison education, only 100 prisoners participated in a full Level 3 course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none participating at Level 4 which is equivalent to...
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'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...Sources of racial and gender disproportionality in school punishment’, The Urban Review, 34(4), pp. 317–342. Stevens. P. (2007) ‘Researching race/ethnicity and educational inequality in English secondary schools: A critical review of the research literature between 1980 and 2005’, Review of Educational Research, 77(2), pp. 147–185. Strand, S. (2014)...
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