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Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Sustainability – An Accomplice or Antagonist?

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 By Emma James

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has very recently emerged as a powerful tool with the potential to address global challenges, including anthropogenically induced climate change

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Heathrow’s Third Runway: Long-Delayed Plans Finally Taking Flight?

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 By Daniel Groves

Last month Rachel Reeves publicly announced the UK government’s support for constructing a third runway at Heathrow Airport, reigniting a longstanding debate in the

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Opinion: How Climate Change is Destroying Southern California

January 20, 2025January 20, 2025 By Gracie Machell

Southern California has been plagued with fires for the past 2 weeks, the biggest and most horrific being the Palisades and Eaton fires,

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Implications of COP29, who should pay?

December 16, 2024January 18, 2025 By Ruby Fry

The COP29 conference held in Azerbaijan proved divisive, and highlighted the unwillingness of developed countries to commit to helping poor nations mitigate the effects of climate change. There was a walkout

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Opinion: Without a Green Plan, the Working Class is Stuck Paying for the Climate Crisis

February 29, 2024February 29, 2024 By Ethan Stringer

Although it is now four years into the 2020s, what do we really have to show for it? Temperatures soared to 40°C, the

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Opinion: Rewind, Revert, Rewild – The Strange New Obsession

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

There is, in our society and others, a deep interest in the preservation and protection of our common environment from the predations of

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