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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...World Environment Day . It will focus on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature, and our possibilities for shifting to a greener lifestyle. It reminds us that our planet is our only home, and we must safeguard its finite resources. Plastic pollution has become one of the biggest concerns. The invention of plastics revolutionised human lifestyles, but the...
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...world wars. Weather prediction helped the 1944 D-Day landings succeed, but equally armies have often waited for bad weather to attack, such as during the Ardennes counter-offensive later that year. For most of the 20th century, the Met Office provided a public service in supplying weather forecasts to the BBC and conducting atmospheric science research. It has acquired an...
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Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...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 challenging the current scientific capacity to monitor and predict what is becoming a journey into uncharted territory.”...
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50 years of sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

50 years of sport and fitness

...has rapidly developed since 1969. In this series of articles, we look back at the advances made in technology and sports medicine, successes of British sportswomen, world records and changes in various sports and fitness activites...Discover how sport has changed in the past 50 years Now take a free related course Study with the OU Read more on sports and risk taking...
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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...world? Finding fossils, I think, but then I don’t think that’s in the least remarkable, I don’t know any four-year-old who’s not interested in the natural world, I truly don’t. I think that every child starts with a fascination of the world, whether it’s watching tadpoles change into frogs or splitting a rock and seeing a fossil inside or listening to birds,...
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Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people
Society, Politics & Law

Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people

...world received, with wild celebrations, news that President Robert Mugabe had resigned from his position as leader of Zimbabwe, after more than 37 years in power. The news created a mood which was in stark contrast to what had been experienced just two days earlier on Sunday November 19th, when, on a television address, Mugabe did not announce his resignation as...
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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...world. Similarly, Aristotle and Plato developed logical methods for examining the world around them. It was the Greeks who first suggested that matter was made up of atoms - fundamental particles that could not be broken down further. But it wasn't only the Greeks who moved science on. Science was also being developed in India, China, the Middle East and South America....
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The history of surfing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The history of surfing

...world, but just a few decades ago there were only a handful of places where you could surf properly. What changed to turn it into a global phenomenon?...Surfing legend begins with Polynesian and particularly Hawaiian prehistory, when surfing was ‘the sport of kings’ as well as commoners. Early Hawaiian surfing was on longboards carved from island trees and the action...
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