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The UK needs a national energy advice service

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
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Nord Stream leaks: where will Europe get its gas from now?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications October 5, 2022October 3, 2022

How energy-saving advice can hurt the most vulnerable households

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications September 24, 2022September 21, 2022

Ethereum: second biggest cryptocurrency to cut energy use by over 99%, but the industry still has a long way to go

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications September 22, 2022September 21, 2022

Why fracking is not the answer to soaring UK gas prices

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications March 9, 2022March 7, 2022
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Supporting Geography in Ukraine’s universities: the Virtual Field Trips for Ukraine Initiative

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 27, 2023March 23, 2023
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Rural poverty is getting worse – and welfare harder to access

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 23, 2023March 16, 2023
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The metaphoric rise of overtourism and why we should stop using the phrase

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 13, 2023March 13, 2023
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Rainforests pump water round the tropics – but the pulse of this heart is weakening

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 10, 2023March 9, 2023
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Intense downpours in the UK will increase due to climate change – new study

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 9, 2023March 9, 2023
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Extreme wildfires are turning the world’s largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 8, 2023March 6, 2023
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Cocktails, curry and afternoon tea: inside the 1930s London conference that brought Gandhi to Buckingham Palace

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 7, 2023March 10, 2023
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La Niña is finishing an extremely unusual three-year cycle – here’s how it affected weather around the world

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 6, 2023March 6, 2023
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To clean up England’s rivers we need to know how much sewage is dumped – but water firms won’t tell us

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 27, 2023February 27, 2023
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Tropical seagrass meadows are sand factories that can help defend coral reef islands from sea-level rise

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 21, 2023February 20, 2023
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Plan will put everyone in England within 15 minutes of green space – but what matters is justice not distance

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 16, 2023February 16, 2023
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Dogs and cats can be expensive – five ways to save money on pet care as the cost of living rises

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 15, 2023February 13, 2023
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The fight between Tate Modern and its wealthy neighbours reveals the gentrification of the skies

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 14, 2023February 16, 2023
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: how disaster diplomacy can bring warring countries together to save lives

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 13, 2023February 16, 2023
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Chess players perform worse when air quality is poor – and other high-skilled workers could be affected too

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 10, 2023February 16, 2023
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Further food price rises could cause up to 1 million additional deaths in 2023

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 9, 2023February 9, 2023
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Welsh place names are being erased – and so are the stories they tell

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 6, 2023February 16, 2023
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‘Blue marble’: how half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 2, 2023February 2, 2023
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BTS singer set for military training – but South Korea is far from alone in retaining national service

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 20, 2023January 19, 2023
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What’s next for the anti-Nato left after Ukraine?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 19, 2023January 16, 2023
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Four ways winter heatwaves affect humans and nature

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 18, 2023January 16, 2023
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Census data shows England and Wales are more ethnically diverse – and less segregated – than ever before

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 17, 2023
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England may be set to flood at the end of winter – here’s why

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 16, 2023January 16, 2023
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Austerity has its own life – here’s how it lives on in future generations

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 13, 2023January 12, 2023
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Climate change can be beaten – why some scientists are hopeful

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 12, 2023January 12, 2023
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London Underground polluted with particles small enough to enter the human bloodstream – new research

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 10, 2023January 9, 2023
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Avatar: The Way of the Water review – tired climate clichés distract from Cameron’s vision

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 15, 2022December 15, 2022
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Cumbria coal mine: Empty promises of carbon capture tech have excused digging up more fossil fuel for decades

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 14, 2022December 12, 2022
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70 years on from London’s Great Smog, we still need cleaner air to protect health

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 13, 2022December 12, 2022
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Earthshot prize: Five winners that will help solve major environmental problems

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 9, 2022December 8, 2022
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Coastal property prices and climate risks are both soaring. We must pull our heads out of the sand

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 8, 2022December 5, 2022
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Black and minoritised ethnic communities at disproportionate risk of homelessness in the UK

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 7, 2022December 5, 2022
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Why the UK needs to stop exporting plastic waste

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 6, 2022December 5, 2022
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The era of the megalopolis: How the world’s cities are merging

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 4, 2022December 1, 2022
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COP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 3, 2022December 1, 2022
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Remembering Yi-Fu Tuan: The most influential scholar you’ve never heard of

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 2, 2022December 1, 2022
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Wildfires often lead to dust storms – and they’re getting bigger

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 1, 2022November 24, 2022
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Austerity gutted the welfare state – preserving benefits now can’t make up for that

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 29, 2022November 24, 2022
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Virtual field trips: Equitable, sustainable, develops the learner?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 28, 2022November 28, 2022
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Who wears the costs of the UK’s Black Friday bonanza?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 22, 2022November 22, 2022
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COP27: how King Charles has demonstrated his commitment to the environment from afar

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 17, 2022November 17, 2022
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Climate change and travel

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 7, 2022November 7, 2022
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The economic impact of COVID in the UK depended on where you live

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 4, 2022November 3, 2022
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The Horn of Africa has had years of drought, yet groundwater supplies are increasing – why?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 3, 2022November 3, 2022
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Menstruation in the field 

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 31, 2022October 31, 2022
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Ancient footprints on UK beach record the demise of a biodiversity hotspot

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 26, 2022October 24, 2022
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We asked homeowners what they need to make homes greener – here’s what they said

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 25, 2022October 24, 2022
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Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 22, 2022October 20, 2022
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