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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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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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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
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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Nature & Environment
World Environment Day
We celebrate World Environment Day on 5th June every year... but that's not where our interest in the environment starts and ends, with just one day. Check out our selection of FREE courses, articles and other content related to the environment and nature that you can explore all year round...
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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.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Could we control our climate?
Climate crisis is one of the grand challenges we face as a society, but it can be hard to approach as a subject. Not only can the science at times seem dauntingly complex, but the solutions are also far from clear. This leaves many people feeling confused, guilty, anxious, angry, or else completely switched off from the subject. This course ...
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Scotland's gold trail
Did you know that Scotland has strong ties with gold mining? Discover the locations where the precious metal is found.
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Nature & Environment
Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Professor Wangari Maathai was an environmentalist and the first female African Nobel Peace Prize winner. Yoseph Araya explores her contribution to the environment and what that meant to be a woman in this field of work.
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Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place
Rockall is an uninhabitable granite islet situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. It lies within the exclusive economic zone of the United Kingdom and is claimed by the UK as its territory. As Dr Gerry Mooney explains, this claim is not recognised by its neighbours.
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In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing
Four of the top five UK ports for landed weight are in Scotland. Is there a possibility of an independent Scotland opting to become an EU member re-joining the EUs Common Fisheries Policy?
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Nature & Environment
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Dr Gerry Mooney looks at the importance of Scotland's fishing industry and how Brexit is leading to an uncertain future.