climate change

Benefits of Environmental Volunteering

Heal Nature to Heal Yourself: The Benefits of Environmental Volunteering

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Mental health and climate change are contentious problems in today’s society, and both place impact on our overall quality of life. Globally, millions of individuals suffer from mental health issues. On top of this, there exists the constantly looming existential threat of climate change. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix to either of these problems. […]

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Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Sustainability
Mangroves on the coastline

Oceans and Climate Change

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The relationship between oceans and climate change often forms key talking points when discussing environmental sustainability. For example, phrases such as ‘the sea levels are rising’, ‘oceans are getting hotter’ or ‘glaciers are melting’ are constantly perpetuated. It is important to understand how much our oceans mean, and how we can ensure their survival into

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Environment, Science, Sustainability
Climate tipping points

From “Climate Tipping Points” to “Social Tipping Interventions”

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CLIMATE TIPPING POINTS “The moment of critical mass, the threshold, and the boiling point.” (Gladwell, 2000). That’s how Malcom Gladwell popularised the term “Tipping Point” back in 2000. Since then, the term has been increasingly welcomed in Climate Change science. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) started using the term in its Fourth Assessment

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Environment, Science, Sustainability

Melting Glaciers: It’s More Than Just Ice

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In recent decades, global glacier depletion has become a ‘hot topic’. The world watches as age-old ice bodies are quickly melting away at unprecedented rates, due to human-induced climate change, and leaving behind dramatic changes to mountain landscapes, freshwater scarcity and significantly rising sea levels around the globe (Rasul, Dahe and Chaudhry, 2008).

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Environment, Science, Sustainability

Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Change

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Fossil fuel subsidies undermine the efforts to stop climate change. Yet, governments in many countries continue to give – what are essentially unreasonably large discounts – to coal, oil, and gas companies. This is despite the fact that many of these countries have committed themselves to climate change solutions. Fuel subsidies are a major barrier

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Environment, Government, Sustainability

Carbon sinks: Why we need them

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Carbon sinks are systems that absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than what they release. The largest carbon sinks in the world are forests and oceans, absorbing around 50% of the carbon dioxide emissions (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2020). These systems capture the carbon and stores them below the Earth’s surface as well as

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