global warming

Courses tagged with "global warming"

Explore the personal side of climate change with Tom Bridge's diary entry.
Explore the personal side of climate change with Eva Ning's diary entry.
Explore the personal side of climate change with Nancy Campbell's diary entry.
To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and humankind. This free course, Health and environment, will look at interactions between plants, animals and the physical and chemical environment, as well as considering ways in which humans have altered, and are altering this environment.
Category: Health
What can we actually learn from history - besides history itself? Does the story of overcoming cholera, for example have lessons for today?
Category: History
Why should we care about the future generations who’ll be affected by global warming? Should the West shoulder the responsibility for tackling climate change?
Category: Philosophy

With a shared mission of sustainability and learning through natural history resources, Zoological Society of London has partnered up with The Open University, creating a shared space for advancing sustainability and conservation education.

Alex Kirby from Climate News Network informs us that a panel of international climate scientists says the world has only until 2050 to become a zero-carbon society − and discusses how the rewards for doing so would be immense.
The Rio+20 Conference brings together world leaders, the private sector and more to discuss the environment. Find out more about this important subject below
Climate change is a key issue on today's social and political agenda. This free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming.
In 1949 Jean Combes began recording the dates when various signs of spring appeared around her home in Surrey. She has continued to do so every year since and, as well as providing invaluable evidence of environmental change, her records have earned her an OBE.
Climate change conferences sound as though they’re going to be really boring, stuffy affairs. The first of our series of blogs from COP 15 suggests otherwise, however.
Is geo-engineering and the use of artificial forests likely to provide a long-term solution to reducing our carbon dioxide levels?
As global warming species have been gradually spreading north, Mike Dodd asks if they'll now be vulnerable to a cold winter?
Why did the earth go from hothouse to icehouse? Pallavi Anand explains the mystery of the ice age during the Cenozoic period
It's not too late, we can all make changes and lower our carbon footprint.
Mark Brandon explains how icebergs are formed and how they contribute to rising sea levels.
Pack ice and a shortage of fresh water cause problems for the RRS James Clark Ross.
Recovering some equipment from the sea bed causes Mark Brandon a heart-in-the mouth moment.