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Hope in a changing climate
Nature & Environment

Hope in a changing climate

...world? Leading Open University academics Joe Smith and Vince Gauci introduce this three part film ‘Hope in a Changing Climate’ which focuses on restoration projects in China, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Local villagers work together to rebuild the ecosystem which in turn has restored their environment. By changing their farming practices and re-vegetating these barren lands...
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What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...world. Planet Earth has undergone massive climatic changes before. It has been through five ‘great extinctions’. The difference with the climate and ecological crisis the Earth is now facing is that it is ‘anthropogenic’, that is, caused by human activities. The link between burning fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas) and global warming has been well established for...
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Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...world’s largest offshore wind development. Output from the Dogger Bank project will be 1.2 Gigawatts – enough to power more than a million homes. Next year, a 150-turbine wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands is due to start operating, and other schemes along the Dutch coast are in the works. Denmark, Sweden and Portugal are major investors in offshore wind, and...
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Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions
History & The Arts

Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions

...world. A similar honour was bestowed on the country when the first stages of the 1998 Tour de France were held in Munster and Leinster, partly to mark the bicentenary of the 1798 Rebellion. One of the stages of the 1998 Tour was routed through Carrick-on-Suir, the home town of Sean Kelly, in recognition of that rider's achievements on the international racing stage in the...
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Citizen science and the data avalanche
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and the data avalanche

...world's biggest forthcoming astronomy and astroparticle physics facilities, so that they can operate jointly in the future for combined "multi-messenger" discoveries. If a collision of black holes is spotted by gravitational waves, or a gamma-ray burst detected from some distant relativistic explosion, then other facilities will be able to operate together and catch the...
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The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...world that, in positing the “free” West against an “oppressive” Islam, conveniently overlook its political complexities and nuances. Stigmatising mental health disorders Other prejudices have surfaced: principally the issue of whether the shooter was mentally “unstable”, as his ex-wife suggested in an interview. Reproducing, without questioning, such a...
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Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions

...World War, women had to step in to fill the jobs that men had left. Many of these jobs were on the railway and it had never been imagined that women would be able to do this type of work previously. Society was very different and, if women did work, it would generally be in service and, even then, they would be expected to leave when they married. Attitudes were very...
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The psychological impacts of climate change
Nature & Environment

The psychological impacts of climate change

...world are suffering from “climate anxiety”. What is it and what can we do about it?...Unless someone invents some magic political fairy dust, according to the world’s most trusted scientists we are facing in all likelihood an estimated global average surface temperature warming of 2.4 degrees by the end of the century (Climate Action Tracker). This is an average –...
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