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Martin Currie, Simon Spooner & Ana Mijic
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Aerial photograph of river valley

Is climate change and the resulting loss in biodiversity irreversible? Will our current efforts to slow climate change be enough or do we need to consider radical change in our water systems?


IES/FWR held this discussion meeting to explore whether abstracting water downstream of cities,...

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Recent journals

  • This issue of the journal examines an idea that is gaining traction in environmental thinking in recent years: net gain.

    Approaching this topic from a range of different disciplines and...

  • Innovations in AI, machine learning, and other digital technologies are already offering enormous benefits for environmental science, and for the health of our ecosystems. Yet with these...

  • Britain’s natural environment is often viewed as something that exists independently of our financial and governance systems. Whilst there are questions about whether we should reduce nature to a...

  • The water crisis is now a familiar feature in the UK media: from sewage discharges released into our rivers and seas, to plastic pollution damaging our wastewater systems, and droughts and floods...

  • How we respond to matters of environmental justice in the present will shape our society well into the future, as the world grapples with the intensifying effects of climate change and countless...

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