Archive For August 28, 2020

Protests planned as Extinction Rebellion embarks on ‘critical mass’ bicycle ride around Norwich

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Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion will be staging a ‘critical mass’ bicycle ride to demonstrate about climate change.

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Summer Family Fun: How to make a Cartonera book

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Cartonera is an artistic publishing movement which originally began in Argentina but spread all across Latin America.  It was born of an economic crisis where people – cartoneros – started making a living by selling materials they had salvaged to recycling plants.  Cartonera books are usually made from the cardboard bought from cartoneros at a higher cost set by recycling plants. The cardboard they find is used to create…

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Fighting fatigue in lithium-ion batteries

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Fighting fatigue in lithium-ion batteries

Image of coin cells courtesy Department of Chemistry photography Monday, August 24, 2020 Researchers have identified a potential new degradation mechanism for electric vehicle batteries – a key step to designing effective methods to improve battery lifetime. Researchers from this Department, the University of Liverpool, and the Diamond Light Source have identified one of the…

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Divestment update: four colleges announce partial divestment from fossil fuels

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Divestment update: four colleges announce partial divestment from fossil fuels

Divestment revelations come during Extinction Rebellion’s direct action campaign.

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How an astrophysicist wrote ‘Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air’

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New title published September 3 by UIT Books with webinar launch on August 26

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Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changes

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Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changes

New research has revealed that climate changes associated with past episodes of abrupt warming in Greenland occurred synchronously across a region extending from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere subtropics. … The post Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changes appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

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The post Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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What’s the point? Extinction Rebellion revisits Trinity College lawn

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The February dig that polarised Cambridge and the nation is back in the news as first court hearings take place

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Abrupt changes in Earth’s past climate occurred synchronously

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An international study, involving Professor Eric Wolff at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, has found that the onset of past climate changes was synchronous over an area extending from the Arctic to the low latitudes.

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Eleven Extinction Rebellion protestors appear in court charged with criminal damage

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A number of protesters – one as young as 19 – have appeared in court charged with criminal damage to two Cambridgeshire land marks.

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