Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Brian McNoldy, University of Miami
As the super full moon approaches, coastal cities face heightened tidal flooding risks. The lunar nodal cycle currently lessens the moon's influence on tides, creating a false sense of security amid rising sea levels. Awareness of this cycle is crucial for communities to prepare for future flooding challenges.
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- Written by: James Dyke, University of Exeter et al
Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process.
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- Written by: Beronda L. Montgomery, Michigan State University
As a species, humans are wired to collaborate. That’s why lockdowns and remote work have felt difficult for many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Mossop
As the climate changes, floods and extreme rainfall events will become more intense. In many cases, the most disadvantaged people are at highest risk from floods and least able to bounce back when their homes and businesses are inundated.
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- Written by: Philipp Grünewald
The gold standard of research in science is the randomised controlled trial. The COVID-19 restrictions may at times seem random and most certainly feel like a trial. But are they controlled enough to learn from?
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- Written by: John Mathews et al
Australia doesn’t yet export renewable energy. But the writing is on the wall: demand for Australia’s fossil fuel exports is likely to dwindle soon, and we must replace it at massive scale.
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- Written by: Kyla Tienhaara et al
Demand for fossil fuels collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdown measures were introduced. In the second quarter of 2020,
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- Written by: Nicholas Rajkovich
Summer temperatures in Chicago normally peak in the low 80s, but in mid-July 1995 they topped 100 F with excessive humidity for three days straight.
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- Written by: Simone Abram
How do you respond to a crisis? It’s obvious that the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been dramatically different to anything provoked by repeated scientific warnings about climate change.
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- Written by: Risa Palm and Toby W. Bolsen
To get people to stop and pay attention, successful advertising delivers information simply and with an emotional hook so that consumers notice and, hopefully, make a purchase.
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- Written by: Isabelle Côté
Noisy reefs are a very good thing. So good, in fact, that we might be able to use the sound of healthy coral reefs to improve the quickly increasing number of degraded ones.
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- Written by: Birte Loschenkohl
Society’s defining issues are rarely presented as raw facts and stats, and climate change is no exception.
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- Written by: David M. Hart
Climate plans are the order of the day in the presidential primary campaign because carbon pollution is a global threat of unique proportions.
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- Written by: Ryan Plummer, et al
Cities are on the front line of climate change. While their footprints cover a mere two per cent of the Earth’s surface, they consume 78 per cent of global energy and account for over 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Written by: Catherine Howell, et al
Spring and summer 2017 were among the wettest on record in eastern North America.
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- Written by: Siddharth Narayan and Michael Beck
The devastating impacts of Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria across the United States and the Caribbean provide tragic reminders of the catastrophic risks we face on our coasts.
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- Written by: Lakshmi Magon
This year, three studies showed that humour is useful for engaging the public about climate change.
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- Written by: Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland
When faced with a rapidly advancing fire threatening a community, it can be hard to know how best to save lives.
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- Written by: Gabriel Recchia and Haydn Belfield
There’s little that the left and the right agree on these days. But surely one thing is beyond question: that national governments must protect citizens from the gravest threats and risks they face.
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- Written by: Nicholas Rajkovich
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United States.
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- Written by: Jelena Kecmanovic
A recent study showed that North Americans are becoming less tolerant of uncertainty.
