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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...world. Many people are overwhelmed by despair when faced with the enormity of Climate Change and other global challenges. This can even be exacerbated by the magnitude of some of the proposed solutions, especially the most ambitious technical ones. Something needs to intervene between the disasters presented by global and social media and the debilitating mood that...
Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...world around them...[Young child on a woodland path] If you work in childcare or education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about ‘saving the environment’. You may be making connections with nature by cultivating responsibility for a patch of woodland to ensure the next generation will care...
Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...World Cup. But the tackles, speed and power fans see on the field are only part of the story. What we don’t see is what it takes – both physically and psychologically – to wear England’s emblem, the Red Rose...The psychology of rugby shapes every performance. Behind the scenes lie early mornings, lonely and punishing rehab sessions, playing through pain, brutal...
Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events
Society, Politics & Law

Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events

...World War, it is already apparent that its antecedents were laid down during the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. To identify a year when ‘it’ came to 'an end' is also problematic, 1919, 1922, 1926 or the early 1930s? It is clear that its legacies were continuing until well after World War Two. Importantly, Red Clydeside is not a...
Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...world...Traditional media - like TV and film - often profits from young people: adults write stories about them, often without their involvement. These are, quite often, sensationalised portraits of youth, which may focus on the risky or exciting. Young people may or may not find these good reflections of their own lives, or the lives they would like to have. The internet...
What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...world. As we write in Nature today, the global environmental community is particularly concerned by Trump’s anti-climate and broader anti-environmental stance during his presidential campaign. Trump’s more extreme campaign statements may not eventuate. But there will most likely be substantive changes in how the United States engages with the world on environmental,...
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...World About Us, Sunday nights, you know, it is now called The Natural World, that was a real eye opener for me. I used to sit with my parents, I was in front of the fire, like a dog, watching the world through this little box in the corner of the living room in the early seventies, just thinking, ‘That’s absolutely amazing.’ The fascination of nature, the beauty of...
Our tomorrows
Health, Sports & Psychology

Our tomorrows

Teenagers around the world share their fears and dreams...Transcript.