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Climate change to increase lifetime of space pollution

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Climate change to increase lifetime of space pollution

Satellites face greater chances of collision with space debris as a result of reduced density in the upper atmosphere. Increasing levels of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere will result in … The post Climate change to increase lifetime of space pollution appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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CEENRG Thursday seminars: ‘Climate Change, Fossil Fuels and Human Rights’

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Speaker: Dr Julia Dehm, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) is hosting a seminar series throughout the 2022 23 academic year. Seminars take place as hybrid meetings (in person seminars in the DAB – David…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘Inter-agency Coordination and Capacity Building: Whose International Law?’ – Margaret Young, University of Melbourne

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Lecture summary: International lawyers are well-aware of the theoretical and practical imperatives for interaction between disparate fields of professional specialisation within the discipline. This is perhaps best exemplified by ocean governance. Not one of the significant global problems facing the ocean – and there are countless alarming examples, including climate change, marine plastics debris, biodiversity…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘Implementing International Law: Capacity-Building, Coordination and Control’ – Margaret Young, University of Melbourne

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Lecture summary: How do state officials learn and implement obligations from multiple regimes? Global problems do not fit neatly into siloed fields of professional specialisation. For example, of the increasingly alarming problems facing the ocean – climate change, marine plastics debris, biodiversity loss, or overfishing – not one can be addressed without inter-agency cooperation and…

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A realistic projection of climate change in the upper atmosphere into the 21st century

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The post A realistic projection of climate change in the upper atmosphere into the 21st century appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Contrasting fate of western Third Pole’s water resources under 21st century climate change

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The post Contrasting fate of western Third Pole’s water resources under 21st century climate change appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Floating ‘artificial leaves’ ride the wave of clean fuel production

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Floating ‘artificial leaves’ ride the wave of clean fuel production

An artificial leaf floats on the River Cam near King’s College Chapel, courtesy UofCambridge Monday, August 15, 2022 Researchers here have developed floating ‘artificial leaves’ that generate clean fuels from sunlight and water, and could eventually operate on a large scale at sea. The team designed ultra-thin, flexible devices, which take their inspiration from photosynthesis…

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£200bn annual opportunity for energy sector to deliver energy savings

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£200bn annual opportunity for energy sector to deliver energy savings

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Wildfire

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Wildfires are unplanned and uncontrolled combustion of vegetated areas which can damage property and human life, and may have negative effects on the ecosystems where they occur. As climate change … The post Wildfire appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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The rising threat of climate change for arthropods from Earth’s cold regions: Taxonomic rather than native status drives species sensitivity

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The post The rising threat of climate change for arthropods from Earth’s cold regions: Taxonomic rather than native status drives species sensitivity appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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