Comparing COVID-19 with our climate emergency
Professor of Earth System Science, Prof. Neil Edwards, talks to ecologist Dr Julia Cooke about the connections and contrasts between the COVID-19 pandemic and our climate emergency, and their impacts on society and the economy.
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06 Apr 2021
How to respond to the climate emergency
Tackling climate change requires change at every level of society, and particularly in the systems and institutions of governance and leadership. As individuals, issues of climate change can feel remote to our own lives and leave us feeling...
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06 Apr 2021
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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06 Apr 2021
How can you become a geologist?
Watch an interview with geologist George Riley, as he shares his advice on how to get into the mining industry, plus what he enjoys most about geology.
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02 Mar 2021
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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02 Mar 2021
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02 Mar 2021
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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01 Mar 2021
Fashion and the environment
There is a growing awareness that fashion – and particularly fast fashion – is environmentally unsustainable.
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27 Jan 2021
What the Brexit deal means for the Cornish fishing industry
Brexit and fishing have two big topics over the past few years. Dr Vicky Johnson looks at what happens now that Brexit has finally happened.
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22 Jan 2021
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...
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15 Jan 2021
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