By Jasmine Couchman – 1 in 3 people still lack access to safe drinking water worldwide [1]. Water is fundamental to the function of humanity as deh ydration is significantly more instantaneous than starvation [2]. While you and I likely just turn the tap on, without a second thought, this insecurity, predominantly in less economically…
By Sara Antonioli – Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s story shocked the nation when she became the first UK resident to have air pollution on her death certificate, at just 9 years old [1]. London, like many world cities, is facing the ever growing threat of air pollution (figure 1). Congestion has been one of the main areas…
By Georgina Hopwood – It is no secret that sea turtles seem to be one of the primary victims of human degradation to the environment, being the poster species for campaigns against ocean pollution, plastic use, oil spills and general exploitation of marine life. However, we see much less information spread about light pollution and…
By Rob Chantrey – In 2018 alone, 8.7million people died from fossil fuel-driven air pollution, equivalent to 20% of deaths worldwide [1]. This is not an anomaly. Every year millions globally, in both developing and developed countries, die at the hands of the ‘invisible killer’. Despite an increasing number of discoveries identifying smog’s impacts on…
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…
by Megan C Mitchell – Conservation appears in many forms and happens in a range of places. When people think of conservation, they think about it in terms of saving the rainforest, protecting the elephants or panda breeding programs but it does not have to be that it can be on a much smaller scale.…