Fiona Wattam

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Opinion: Time is running out to prevent a climate catastrophe – is Britain doing enough to tackle the problem?
independent.co.uk - Heather Alberro
The apocalyptic bushfires currently tearing through Australia and many other parts of the globe ought to serve as stark reminders of the realities of …
January 4
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Rewilding the UK – how a new movement aims to tackle climate emergency by reintroducing wildcats and eagles to Britain
independent.co.uk - Colin Drury
Professor Alastair Driver looks out across Burbage Moor in the Peak District and imagines this brown and bracken-covered landscape in 25 years’ time. …
January 4
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Climate Change
Letters: As the world burns, it's sad to see so many leaders remain in denial about the reality of climate change
independent.co.uk
After the Amazon’s blazing rainforest fires that raged havoc, affecting not only Brazil’s but the globe’s ecology, the world is watching the …
January 4
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Weatherwatch: restore peat bogs to fight climate change
The Guardian - Jeremy Plester
Peat moors store far more carbon dioxide than forests, as well as helping to control flooding Politicians are getting very excited about planting millions of trees to curb climate change, but there is
Dec 2, 2019
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Style (UK)
Is carbon neutrality the silver bullet fashion has been hoping for?
The Guardian - Ellie Violet Bramley
Tiny clutch bags, conceptual knitwear and carbon neutrality – the ideas that fashion chooses to embrace each season aren’t always those you might expect. But thanks to a recent shift, no doubt spurred
Nov 12, 2019
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Should this tree have the same rights as you?
The Guardian - Robert Macfarlane
Around the world, a movement is gaining momentum that grants legal rights to natural phenomena, including rivers, lakes and mountains. Robert Macfarlane investigates the rise of the new animism On 26 2019,
Nov 2, 2019
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How do we feed the world without destroying it?
The Guardian - Bob Geldof
Hunger and the climate crisis are inextricably linked - the challenge is how to solve one while not exacerbating the other Hunger is the most awful and profound expression of poverty. It exists in every
Oct 16, 2019
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Can fashion keep its cool … and help save the planet?
The Guardian - Edward Helmore
Fashion is responsible for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions and consumes more energy than airline and shipping combined United Nations report Recently the UK protest group Extinction Rebellion announced
Aug 31, 2019
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'Like' isn't a lazy linguistic filler – the English language snobs need to, like, pipe down
The Conversation UK - Rebecca Woods
The latest series of the television show Love Island is over, with Amber and Greg now snuggling up as the most recent winners – at least until the …
Aug 19, 2019
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The mood-altering power of the Moon - BBC Future
BBC Future - Linda Geddes
The idea that the lunar cycle can influence people’s behaviour dates back thousands of years, but has been largely dismissed by modern medicine. But new research suggests there may be some truth to these
Jul 31, 2019
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The rise of ‘ungardening’: how to turn a backyard into a wildlife haven
The Guardian - Sirin Kale
A wildlife gardening expert gives her tips on attracting birds, mammals and bugs to your outdoor space Manicured privets and immaculate lawns are a thing of the past. Nowadays, it’s all about “ungardening”:
Aug 5, 2019
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Can we really restore or protect natural habitats to 'offset' those we destroy?
The Conversation UK - Sophus zu Ermgassen and Joseph William Bull
In the forests of northern Sweden, a major train line cuts through land originally protected for migratory birds – so new seasonal wetlands have been …
Aug 5, 2019
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How much does your flight actually hurt the planet?
Quartz - Cassie Werber
The advice seems simple: Flying has a huge climate cost compared to other individual actions, and if we care about our impact on the environment, we should limit how much we do it. But the bigger question
Jul 30, 2019
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Condemning poor children to a life without culture is a form of cruelty
The Guardian - Barbara Ellen
From music to sport, too many kids are losing out on vital life-enhancing activities Disadvantaged children in England are being priced out of a cultural hinterland. A Social Mobility Commission study,
Jul 20, 2019
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Reforesting an area the size of the US needed to help avert climate breakdown, say researchers – are they right?
The Conversation UK - Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis
Restoring the world’s forests on an unprecedented scale is “the best climate change solution available”, according to a new study. The researchers …
Jul 4, 2019
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It's all gloom and despair in the UK but as an outsider I still think it's wonderful
The Guardian - Brigid Delaney
I’ve found somewhere where they apologise to you if you bump them with your backpack on a crowded tube It’s a summer Sunday in a beer garden in Islington, London, at drinks organised by Ivan, a friend
Jul 4, 2019
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Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis
The Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editor
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis,
Jul 4, 2019
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Great Pacific garbage patch: giant plastic trap put to sea again
The Guardian - Associated Press
Floating boom is designed to trap 1.8tn items of plastic without harming marine life – but broke apart last time A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in a second attempt
Jun 23, 2019
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Paper straws won’t save the planet – we need a four-day week
The Guardian - Andre Spicer
Working less would massively reduce our carbon footprint, and bring many other benefits besides When the Extinction Rebellion protesters took to the streets, I was doubtful about how effective their tactics
Jun 21, 2019
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Key IELTS topic: invasive species
Birds: we studied 4,000 'alien introductions' to find out why some were successful
The Conversation UK - Tim Blackburn
Jun 20, 2019
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What is extinction? The answer is complicated.
nationalgeographic.co.uk
Extinction is a natural phenomenon: After all, more than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth aren’t alive today. But humans have …
May 30, 2019
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It is absurd to question whether we can afford to keep our planet liveable
The Guardian - Fiona Harvey
The chancellor has warned against cutting UK emissions to net zero. But failing to act will have dire consequences The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has written to the prime minister to warn against adopting
Jun 6, 2019
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The Guardian view on facial recognition: a danger to democracy
The Guardian - Editorial
We don’t want our faces stored in vast databases, whether these are public or private The pressure group Liberty has denounced automatic facial recognition as “arsenic in the water supply of democracy”.
Jun 9, 2019
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Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg: How one teenager became the voice of the planet
Wired UK - Amelia Tait
When Greta Thunberg first downloaded Instagram in June 2018, the Swedish schoolgirl used the app to post pictures of herself posing with her rescue …
Jun 6, 2019
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Need a quick vocabulary boost before your IELTS test? Here are 28 tips, ideas and links to help you level up your score.
28 ways to improve your IELTS vocabulary
ieltsetc.com
Jul 12, 2019
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Curious Kids: how is global warming heating up the Earth?
The Conversation UK - Richard Hodgkins
Curious Kids is a series by The Conversation, which gives children of all ages the chance to have their questions about the world answered by …
Jun 5, 2019
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How prehistoric people faced climate change revealed by video game technology
The Conversation UK - Peter Allen and John Stewart
How will climate change remake our world in the 21st century? Will we be able to adapt and survive? As with many things, the past is a good guide for …
Jun 3, 2019
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Plastic straws to be banned from April next bars will still have to provide them if asked
The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton
A crackdown on plastic straws will come into force in April but pubs and restaurants will still be required to hand them over if requested by customers under a medical loophole. Today Michael Gove, the
May 22, 2019
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‘This is a wake-up call’: the villagers who could be Britain’s first climate refugees
The Guardian - Tom Wall
As sea levels rise, Fairbourne, sandwiched between mountains and the beach, is being returned to the waves. But where will its residents go? It is an almost perfect spring day. The sky is milky blue and
May 18, 2019
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Useful advice about giving presentations.
Millions are using this Japanese-inspired technique to radically improve their presentations—here's how it works
CNBC - Mark Murphy, Contributor
Apr 29, 2019