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Nature & Environment
Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
What harm can microplastics cause to human health and can they get into our food? Joanna Jesionkowska, a research student at The Open University, looks into this here.
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Nature & Environment
Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Sue Edwards was a prominent British-Ethiopian botanist and an environmental and development champion. Yoseph Araya reflects on her life in this article...
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Nature & Environment
Do animals have sex for fun?
How was it for Fido? Do animals approach sex in more than a - well, animalistic - way?
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Nature & Environment
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Raising awareness of local trees.
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Nature & Environment
How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
At COP26 in Glasgow, we saw that scientists, politicians, and environmental activists love their jargon. Everyone who attended came away with a new climate buzzword firmly planted in their minds: nature-based solutions.
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Nature & Environment
Stories of Change
Video interviews capturing the thinking of key players in the climate change and energy debates at a critical time.
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Nature & Environment
Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency
The need to reduce carbon emissions from older buildings: some opportunities and challenges.
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Education & Development
Young children and the climate crisis
Tackling ecological and social injustice together: how early years practitioners and young children can respond to the climate crisis alongside non-human creatures and the material world around them.
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Society, Politics & Law
COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Critical reflections on Glasgow’s own environmental and social justice history as the host city.
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Nature & Environment
Reduce e-waste through donating old computer devices
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Reduce means reducing your use of items that lead to waste. Since 2000, amounts of e-waste have grown from 20 million to 50 million tonnes per year.
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Money & Business
Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Acting alone is as important as acting together.
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Nature & Environment
The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Driving the transition towards environmental sustainability and net zero in Higher Education (HE).