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Nature & Environment
Climate change and the importance of COP26
Learn about climate change from different disciplinary perspectives and how that knowledge and experience may explain and inform the outcomes of COP26.
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Society, Politics & Law
The sharing economy
How sharing and caring is the sharing economy? Petr Jehlička takes a critical look at the booming sector and traces its hidden connections and contradictions.
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Nature & Environment
iSpot: Your place to share nature
Global biodiversity is in decline and the spotlight is on all of us to act to help monitor and protect the variety of ecosystems to reduce deterioration. This loss affects ecosystems, species and habitats on which all life on earth depends. What can and should we be doing to help sustain nature?
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Nature & Environment
Biodiversity with The Parks Trust
Ensuring outside areas have a good variety of plants and wildlife is crucial for ecosystems to thrive.
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Nature & Environment
Automated, satellite-based volcano monitoring
Less than 10% of the ∼1500 active subaerial volcanoes around the world are monitored with appropriate frequency says PhD student, Nikola Rogic.
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Nature & Environment
Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change
Researching the Indian summer monsoon can allow us to develop a better understanding of our changing climate says PhD student, Katrina Nilsson-Kerr.
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Nature & Environment
Make a meadow, whatever the scale and the diversity of meadows
Would you like to create your own meadow? Find out the steps required to make one and how you can maintain it.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How to read a rock
By understanding the ways in which minerals combine to form rocks like the way words link to form sentences, we can start to unravel the secrets of the earth.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How to make a mountain: Investigating crustal melting in the Himalaya
PhD student, Stacy Phillips, explains how researching granites in Eastern Bhutan can give clues about the evolution of the Himalayan mountain belt.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How old is a mountain range?
Eleni Wood explains how the science of 'geochronology' can be used to effectively analyse the history of a mountain range.
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Nature & Environment
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Meadows are not just about wildflowers, they’re also about hay as an agricultural crop. But they don’t make it like they used to. PhD student, Vicky Bowskill, explains how researching seasonal changes in the nutritional content of hay can help conserve the UK's precious species-rich floodplain meadows.
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Nature & Environment
Climate change in the global South: Bangladesh and Senegal
The films on this page explore climate change in two countries: Bangladesh in south Asia, and Senegal in west Africa.