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Young people are sitting on the grass wearing headphones and listening to sounds from 'a world never-before encountered' inside a tree with soundscape ecologist, Dr Alice Eldridge.

‘Creating with Uncertainty’: experimenting with creative methods for climate education

28 July 2022

Jointly funded HEIF/SSRP project aims to reconfigure education which embraces a creative engagement with uncertainty

How can research help to reverse biodiversity loss?

19 October 2020

The widespread loss and degradation of biodiversity is one of our planet’s most pressing crises. Species diversity across all life including...

Rain clouds approach the shores of Puthiyathura village of Thiruvananthapuram district in southwestern India

Forecasting with fishers out of a job

8 July 2020

Rain clouds approach the shores of Puthiyathura village of Thiruvananthapuram district in southwestern India Puthiyathura,...

A doctor holding an injection in her hands

COVID-19: a shot in the arm for healthcare?

15 May 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted healthcare to the forefront of public interest. Yet healthcare institutions are under immense financial...

A child standing in the narrow lanes of Bhola Slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Photo: Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson 2016).

Keeping distance, lacking space: COVID-19 in refugee camps and informal settlements

14 May 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down over the last couple of weeks. Country after country...

Woman passing by in front of banners representing each of the sustainable development goals

Sustainable Development Goals and the Pandemic

13 May 2020

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form an ‘integrated and indivisible’ framework of goals and targets to guide all countries...

The Arts and Regenerative Cultures in the time of COVID-19

12 May 2020

In the course of a three-month period, COVID-19 has wrought unprecedented social and economic change across Europe. Much of this has been...

Eagle eye's view of a tropical island surrounded by turquoise waters

COVID-19 and the environmental yo-yo diet

4 May 2020

There are more COVID-19 theories circulating than toilet paper stocked up in a family household of 4 during the first weeks of lockdown. Most...

Semi-open laptop in a dark room, reflecting colourful light

Things to do online during lockdown

24 April 2020

Staying at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during this pandemic has compelled us to explore alternative ways to socialise, work, learn, keep...

A bee diving the head into a pink flower

Find solace in the bees

22 April 2020

Our world has become an uncertain and fragile place, one in which we all worry for the health of our older relatives and wonder what kind of future...

Sustainable pandemic preparedness: beyond health systems in poor countries

18 April 2020

It’s not that nobody had seen this coming. The World Health Organisation had been ringing the alarm bells for years. Bill Gates, chairman of...

COVID-19, economic free fall and air pollution

17 April 2020

The collapse of economic activity due to the new cororavirus crisis gave a new impetus to debates on the relationship between economic growth and...

A woman of colour sitting on the floor with her back against tents made with scraps

Environment and poverty during the Coronavirus crisis: a lesson for global collaboration

16 April 2020

One of the most pronounced effects of the pandemic, since government lockdowns began, has been the stark decreases in air pollution and carbon...

The Covid-19 pandemic and refugees: fears and opportunities

15 April 2020

The inequalities of Covid-19 are now well established. In wealthy countries, age and pre-existing medical conditions are the crucial differentiating...

Coronavirus and the EU's 'Triple Crisis'

9 April 2020

The ‘triple crisis’ has shown that EU crisis-management is routinely limited by competing member-state preferences. This time,...

A room of a textiles factory with people working and clothes on the floor

Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu: Textile livelihoods under threat

8 April 2020

On the 24th of March 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a complete national lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 on the...

Eagle eye's view of a green landscape: division between agricultural fields and a forest

Covid19: a cautionary tale of the dangers of unsustainable food production and consumption

7 April 2020

Unless significant changes are made in production and consumption patterns, we should anticipate further pandemics and other catastrophes resulting...

'Time for change' written in chalk on a blackboard

Sustainability as a shared value: universities and the pandemic

6 April 2020

Governments around the world have responded by seizing power to curtail basic liberties with very little public resistance, in ways that would have...

Two paths opening into a perennial forest

Life, but not as we know it

2 April 2020

Amid the fear, uncertainty and personal loss that surround the current Covid-19 pandemic, people are starting to think about what form a ‘just...

Manifestos of nature – what the parties are saying about biodiversity

11 December 2019

This was blog was first published on the School for Law, Politics and Sociology at the ��Ƶ blog available...