As a haze from the Sahara envelops Athens, Professor David Thomas, speaks to The Telegraph to explain why dust storms are becoming a worrying global trend.
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Alumni Stories: 'A career in sports journalism is an exciting life but not a lazy or easy life.'
Jen O'Neill (Keble, 1993), Editor of Women's Football Magazine She Kicks gives tips for a career in sports journalism in an article on the Oxford Alumni website.
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New book unveils the connections between the built environment, the creation and destruction of 'home', and war in Syria
Dr Ammar Azzouz, a British-Syrian architect and British Academy Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Environment, is author of the new book 'Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria'.
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Extreme weather events are exactly the time to talk about climate change - here's why
Josh Ettinger, a doctoral researcher in SoGE, is exploring how extreme weather events may affect the way the public feels, thinks and acts on climate change. In an article in The Conversation he explores how to talk about recent extreme weather events and climate change with people and how to shift their existing concerns about climate change into action.
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Just Four Films. BBC-Oxford social sciences join forces to turn four great ideas into fantastic new films
Two projects from SoGE - 'How the humble bean can help the world' from ECI's future of food platform TABLE, and 'How to keep cool (without heating the planet)' led by Dr Radhika Khosla in the SSEE - are among four projects turned into engaging short films in collaboration with BBC Ideas.
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The Historic Built Environment as a Long-Term Geochemical Archive: Telling the Time on the Urban "Pollution Clock"
An innovative study led by Dr Katrin Wilhelm, Researcher and Departmental Lecturer at the School of Geography and the Environment, uses Oxford’s historic structures as geochemical "clocks" to reveal past pollution trends.
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Go on a journey through time with the Museum of Climate Hope trail
Join us for a tour of the Museum of Climate Hope, a unique museum trail and interactive experience across all six of Oxford's Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) that cultivates climate hope by reframing the stories of real artefacts around the themes of resilience, innovation and transformation.
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Multi-billion-dollar risk to economic activity from climate extremes affecting ports: Oxford report
More than $122 billion of economic activity - $81 billion in international trade - is at risk from the impact of extreme climate events, according to new research from Oxford's Environmental Change Institute.
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UK in top 10 'dangerously unprepared' for heat, if global 1.5ºC target is missed: Oxford report
The UK, Switzerland and Norway top the list of countries heading for dramatic increases in uncomfortably hot days - if temperatures break the international 1.5ºC target, according to new research from Oxford. But, the researchers maintain, such countries are 'dangerously unprepared'.
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Smart Handpump data helps deliver reliable drinking water
Almost two billion people don't have reliable access to safe drinking water. For rural communities in some countries around the world, handpumps are vital for drinking water, washing, bathing, laundry and for watering livestock and irrigating crops. However, one in four handpumps are not working at any given time and effective systems often aren't in place to manage their upkeep. Dr Patrick Thomson, Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, and colleagues have helped build a system to identify and fix faulty pumps sooner.
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School of Geography and the Environment appoints a new Associate Professor in Physical Geography
Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment has appointed Dr David Moreno-Mateos as Associate Professor in Physical Geography who will take up post on 1st September 2023. Dr Moreno-Mateos will replace Rob Whittaker (Professor of Biogeography), who retires from the School later this year. The new appointment is in association with Oxford's St Edmund Hall where Dr Moreno-Mateos will hold the position of Tutorial Fellow in Physical Geography.
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