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Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...data from 4,200 river-measuring stations in 38 European nations across a 50-year timespan. They also collected information on soil moisture, rain and snowfall and temperature. In western Europe, 50% of the stations recorded a shift towards earlier floods – up to 15 days earlier – and in northeastern Europe, half of all hydrometric stations recorded an advance in the...
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Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...Data availability “Too long they have been overlooked as a means to tackle climate change. Too often have problems of accurate measurement and reporting stymied progress towards climate-smart soil management. “With the surge in availability of big data on soils around the world, alongside rapid improvements in understanding and modelling, the time has come for this...
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Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...analysis of microfossils can provide data on seawater temperature and salinity (salt content), atmospheric CO2 and ocean circulation. Less common deposits of coarse debris can point to the break up of ice sheets and the release of detritus from melting icebergs. Marine sediments provide information from time periods ranging from 20 000 years to 180 million years ago....
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...data collected from school leaders, for school leaders. The course explores and challenges the role of online learning across a broad range of issues and the way they influence strategy and individual practice. It is based around four main areas. Surrounding the framework are the cross-cutting themes of pedagogical innovation, flexibility and partnerships, resources and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...data files and security updates’ if they are not already selected. Unlike Microsoft, Apple does not have a regular schedule for delivering updates. On occasion, Apple has forced security updates on machines to fix the most serious problems. These updates are entirely automated and do not require restarting your machine. Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad) Updates for Apple’s...
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Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...data driven communication by social media companies. These target Facebook users based on psychological profiling from Facebook. Data driven communication ensures that political messages are targeted to the people most likely to be influenced by them. It is through this process that social media not only gave a voice to the frustrations of a downtrodden US population but...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...data for species-rich floodplain meadows. Missed hay cuts mean rising soil nutrients and falling botanical diversity. [hay in a field.] But is later-cut hay really of lower nutritional value? And is the delay really critical for long term conservation goals? There is a need for more data about how the nutritional content of hay changes during the growing season between...
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Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...data, and the best way to keep track of where you are is to organise it in a highly visual fashion by compiling a family tree. This is a diagram that shows how all your family members are related to one another - essentially, it's a map of your roots. Start with yourself; if you are married, place your partner's name alongside yours and connect them with the symbol '=' or...
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