I popped along to a town/gown gathering on a cold November evening to find out what the post-Lockdown generation of students were looking for from local councils and town-based climate organisations. Turns out there is more that Town could be doing (without a huge increase in spending/resources) to help newly-arrived undergraduates hit the ground running – and getting stuck into some long term challenges...
The days are upon us when the British government begins High Court legal proceedings against a retired social worker who held up a sign with the law on it ...
As an economics student hailing from Bangladesh, I, Bashar, have personally witnessed the devastating impacts of climate change on my country and its people. The more I learned about the climate crisis and its disproportionate effect on the Global South, the more I realized the importance of climate justice, hope, and representation of marginalized communities in addressing this global challenge. When I attended COP27 held in Egypt in November 2022, I saw first hand ...
Aman Vernekar interviews Mya-Rose Craig, a 20 year old British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, environmentalist, diversity activist, author, speaker, and broadcaster. At age 11, she started the popular blog Birdgirl and, at age 17, she became the youngest person to see half the birds in the world ...
Of the numerous ways in which human activity impacts the global climate, one that is often overlooked, particularly in discussions relating to how we can reduce our impact on the climate, is the contribution of agriculture and particularly animal agriculture. While it is reasonably well-known that greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane, from cattle contribute to our impact on the climate, what is less well-known is that this is only one aspect of the impact of agriculture on the climate. Indeed, around 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions...
Aman Vernekar interviews Trishant Simlai, a postdoctoral research associate in the Smart Forests project in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is a conservation researcher primarily interested in the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India. ...
The CCS team has put together an introductory guide to exploring the green career sector to help you navigate the emerging field. With green jobs growing at around four times the rate of the overall UK employment market (PwC, 2023), this guide contains a diverse set of resources that you can explore this summer to grow your familiarity and understanding of the enormous potential of the green job market ...
Gaia: A new look at life on Earth by James Lovelock is one of the early primers of the environmental movement that caught both the public and scientific community’s imagination. The book was first published in 1979, during the era of burgeoning research into man-made effects on the environment conducted at prestigious universities such as Columbia and MIT, as well as by major oil producers such as Exxon1. Indeed, Lovelock himself extends his gratitude, in the preface, to a colleague from Shell Research Limited (p.xix).
The most salient and interesting points to note are that the text posits an original idea, proposed by a scientist ...
“Climate Crisis”…have you heard this term often lately? If yes then you can do something if you want to save the planet, if not then I can only pray to God or you can at least read this article to get an idea.
Just to set the context, here are some of the facts and figures:
1. The current warming rate is around 10 times faster than the avg. rate of ice-age recovery warming. Since 2010, the earth has recorded five warmest years, and 2016 was the warmest year on record.
2. 1,000,000+ species face extinction. Around 5 species a year is the probable rate of species extinction, but ...
