The Southern Ocean, key to Earth's environmental system, is threatened by climate change. A new paper in Science by Dr Catarina Frazão Santos, Dr Lisa Wedding, and colleagues, details how climate-smart marine spatial planning can support Antarctic seascapes, with implications for the global ocean and human wellbeing.
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Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began
Although the global lockdown due to coronavirus has lowered emissions, scientists including Doctor Karsten Haustein say that longer-term changes are needed, but that the pandemic could be a catalyst for more sustainable means of living.
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Three charts that show where the coronavirus death rate is heading
Three graphs of mortality data tell the story of the direction the UK and the world are heading in after the peak of the coronavirus outbreak. Prof Danny Dorling tries to paint a clearer picture of the direction in which we are heading in an article for The Conversation.
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Oxford University bans investment in fossil fuels after student campaigns
The Independent reports that the University has agreed to divest from fossil fuels and commit to a net-zero investment strategy following extensive student-led campaigns and protests.
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Three graphs that show a global slowdown in COVID-19 deaths
There have been numerous graphs and charts mapping the rise of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. In his latest article for The Conversation, Professor Danny Dorling uses smoothed data visualisations to explore the deceleration in coronavirus deaths around the world.
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The world will recover from coronavirus - but unless we learn from the pandemic, it won't recover from climate change
ECI researchers Kaya Axelsson and Eli Mitchell-Larson provide a perspective on climate change and Covid-19 in the Independent. "Mitigating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic should unequivocally be our top priority right now. But as we emerge from the pandemic, we have the opportunity to begin preparing in earnest for a larger threat: climate change."
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How energy-efficient LED bulbs lit up India in just five years
Dr Radhika Khosla and colleagues explore the unprecedented expansion of India's light emitting diode (LED) bulb market in a guest post for Carbon Brief. Three lessons emerge for future low-carbon technology innovation and market expansion in India and other developing countries.
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Professor Danny Dorling discusses the fallout from coronavirus on BBC Radio 4
On BBC Radio 4's 'Start the Week' Professor Danny Dorling talks to Amol Rajan and Nick Timothy about the coronavirus pandemic, and what the fallout will be.
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Coronavirus: how the current number of people dying in the UK compares to the past decade
Professor Danny Dorling looks at the spread of coronavirus, and how it has affected the mortality rate in the UK so far this year compared to the last decade.
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Flow State: New Incentives, Strategies and Innovations for Water Scarcity
Water scarcity is spreading around the world and incentives to improve efficiency and sustainability have failed to scale up as hoped. A global initiative from The Nature Conservancy and the University of Oxford (led by Dustin Garrick) aims to coordinate innovations in governance, data and finance and link research with implementation to identify the regions where investments could make the biggest difference.
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Five tough questions to ask about reaching net zero climate targets
Anyone setting a net zero target - and the citizens, activists, consumers, and investors holding them to account - should be considering these 5 key challenges, explain physical and social scientists Myles Allen, Thomas Hale, Tim Kruger, Stephen Smith and Kaya Axelsson in the Independent.
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