By Leonie Hetzer – “’Cause even when there is no star in sight, you’ll always be my only guiding light” sing Mumford & Sons. However good these words could describe the fatal end for turtles when the guiding light is, in fact, street lighting on coastal roadways. It disrupts the nocturnal orientation of turtle hatchlings…
By Jasmine Thompson – Food security is increasingly being put under stress due to the rising population set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 [1], with 2.37 billion people not having adequate access to food in 2020[2] this problem is certainly not going away. This leads to more land being converted into permanent field [3]…
By Luke Stevenson – A global shift towards sustainable activities has contributed to more people owning electric cars. A single lithium car battery for electric cars use 14kg of cobalt, and since the price of lithium batteries has dropped by 97% since 1991, the demand for cobalt has risen exponentially, with many believing electric cars…
By Harry Turner – One of the most visible effects of industrialisation is air pollution; chemical contamination that damages human health and wellbeing and affects the natural environment and influences life in ways we don’t fully know. Recently, a study was undertaken to see if air pollution affected people’s perceptions of the tourist sector [1].…
By Lucy Dewhurst – Degraded soils, higher temperatures and reduced water availability. Just a few factors that crop growth could be affected by in years to come as the environment takes on more strain [1]. Potentially reducing agricultural crop productivity in a planet already struggling to feed its population. Currently, over 800 million people go…