What challenges do women in male dominated research areas face and what can we all do to increase the presence of women and other minorities in these fields?
Transport accounts for a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions and remains one of few sectors where emissions are still growing. A key challenge is determining the relative importance of pursuing a technological or a sociological solution: should we change transportation or the behaviour of people?
Can climate information serve as a possible adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions?
Tackling global challenges, one issue at a time. From energy and the environment to economics, development and global health, our expert contributors look at all angles. ANGLE focuses on the intersection of science, policy and politics in an evolving and complex world.
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Universities are sitting on a vast swathe of untapped knowledge. By presenting this information in different formats to new audiences it is possible to forge more effective conduits to the non-academic world.
Earth has crossed a threshold leaving behind the relative stability of the Holocene, the geological epoch of the last 11,000 years, and entered the Anthropocene, an altogether less predictable epoch where the dominant drive of change is us, human beings. With many systems flashing red, just recently humanity has started to step up to this challenge.