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Nature & Environment
Calculating your carbon footprint
Want to understand more about your carbon footprint, what you can and can't do to reduce it? Here we explain what it is, and we have a carbon calculator you can use to help assess your own footprint.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Get outdoors and get active
Designed to inspire outdoors activity while you carry on learning, our fun ideas cover a range of subjects from nature, psychology and astronomy, to health and wellbeing. Take a digital detox from screens and notifications with OpenLearn.
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Nature & Environment
Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Rhowch gynnig ar ein prawf cyfrifiannell carbon er mwyn gweld faint rydych chi'n ei ddefnyddio a sut y gallech leihau eich ôl troed carbon.
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Have a go at our carbon calculator test to check your consumption and how you might be able to reduce your carbon footprint.
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Society, Politics & Law
Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities
Trees in South Asia are protected for their religious symbolism, so you’ll find them in crowded cities. Shonil Bhagwat looks at their natural and cultural heritage.
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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.