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Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...emerge out of the experience of Dr Andrea Berardi, a Lecturer in Environmental Information Systems at The Open University. He is a co-investigator on Project COBRA. COBRA is researching ways to integrate community solutions within policies addressing escalating social, economic and environmental crises, through accessible information and communication technologies....
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What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
Nature & Environment

What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?

...researcher explains how prairie dogs appear to have developed strategies to keep alert in noisier environments - but there might be a downside...In today’s busy online world, our brain’s are constantly stimulated by an onslaught of information. When faced with distractions such as ringing phones, noisy colleagues and floods of incoming emails, focusing on a complex...
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...research on Arctic animals focuses on economically important or charismatic species like caribou or polar bears, small mammals, such as shrews, and their parasites can serve as indicators of environmental change. Andrew Hope, a biologist at Kansas State University, and his colleagues recently published a study of Arctic shrews in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Becoming a University of Sanctuary
Society, Politics & Law

Becoming a University of Sanctuary

...research has shown that access and participation in higher education has other added benefits for those seeking sanctuary. For example, research has indicated that participation in higher education can give sanctuary students a sense of purpose and an opportunity to participate in cultural life. Research we completed at the OU chimed with this, and while it was recognised...
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Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy
Science, Maths & Technology

Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy

...research on cell.com The chart shows that prostate cancer cells alternate periods of rapid growth with periods of dormancy. In the above example, the tumour will grow to the point where it starts to produce symptoms and the patient seeks treatment – which usually involves cutting the tumour out. Surgery is often effective but, for some unfortunate patients, their cancer...
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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...Research Conversations: by and for Education researchers blog about how their views were set in much wider research internationally, but they also posted examples of their own practice change in personal blogs, something encouraged on the Masters in Education as a space for airing development and new understanding. See Jonathan’s blog post highlighting the importance of...
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Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...researchers are struggling to keep up. The changes happening there, it says, are affecting the weather worldwide. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says: “Dramatic and unprecedented warming in the Arctic is driving sea level rise, affecting weather patterns around the world and may trigger even more changes in the climate system. “The rate of change is...
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What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Money & Business

What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?

...research, each year we donate around £10 billion to a diverse range of causes such as homelessness, cancer research and animal abuse. In the US, donations are as high as US$358 billion. But trust in big charity is falling, rocked by stories from aggressive fundraising practices – blamed for the death of a 92-year-old woman – and allegations of mismanagement, to...
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