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Apocalypse Then: what would past ages have made of COVID-19?
By Sam Harrison (@seph1812) As the implications of COVID-19 became clear last month, many of us began to ask why we had not done more to prepare for it: we had known for some time that the virus had the potential to become a pandemic, and for years experts had been warning successive British governments…
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COP26 and the Fragility of Climate Knowledge
By Isobel Akerman (@isobelakerman) On Sunday 31st October 2021, the 197 signatories of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will gather in Glasgow to discuss the biggest issues facing our planet.[1] The 26th Conference of the Parties [COP26] is a two-week conference, designed for nations to negotiate climate adaptation, mitigation, science, technology, finance,…
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