Is climate change making Everest more dangerous?
By Richard Gravelle In the same week as a British climber tragically died on Mount Everest, Nepalese Sherpas have reported that the effects of climatic warming have made the world’s highest mountain...
View ArticleWater in Bangladesh
by Robin de la Motte A modern water wellIt has been known for some years that in South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh, large numbers of people are exposed to unsafe levels of naturally-occurring...
View ArticleMapping Education
by Benjamin Sacks As pupils, teachers, and parents head into the final weeks preceding the winter holiday, education remains a perennial and hotly debated issue. In the last week alone, Education...
View ArticleOur Nation is Sinking: The Maldives and Global Warming
by Benjamin Sacks Malé, the congested capital of the Maldives. © 2014 Wikimedia Commons. The Maldives is sinking. Like several other South Asian and Oceanic archipelagos, the Maldives’s topography...
View ArticleWhy 40°C is bearable in a desert but lethal in the tropics
By Alan Thomas Kennedy-Asser, University of Bristol; Dann Mitchell, University of Bristol, and Eunice Lo, University of Bristol This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative...
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