Biodiversity
Why the UK needs to stop exporting plastic waste
Steve Fletcher, University of Portsmouth The world produces a vast amount of plastic. Global plastic production increased from 2 million metric tons in 1950 […]
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Sustainable Business
Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence
Colin Davis, University of Bristol Protest plays a role in agenda seeding. It doesn’t necessarily tell people what to think, but influences what they […]
Cities
Sewage pollution: our research reveals the scale of England’s growing problem
Sarah Purnell, University of Brighton and James Edward Ebdon, University of Brighton The UK has around 1,500 individual river systems, totalling over 200,000 km […]
Cities
Most buildings were designed for an earlier climate – here’s what will happen as global warming accelerates
Ran Boydell Houses will be more prone to overheating, putting the lives of residents at risk, which is what has happened during the recent […]
Aid
Why South Africa needs a new water agency
Mike Muller Water infrastructure takes many years to plan and build and needs to be structured as a multi-year operation. But the planning and […]