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Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s – years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.
Today, there are more than 20 cryptomarkets selling illicit drugs, or more than 55 if single-vendor markets are included.
An increasing number of companies have well-being policies, but some can do more harm than good.
Could European based British University campuses offer international and UK home students a chance to escape fee hikes and travel restrictions after Brexit?
There’s been a deafening silence in recent Australian elections over the environment. But it hasn’t always been the case.
Pay-for-performance for doctors works brilliantly … but only in theory.
American firms were warned about global warming way back in 1968. And Australia wasn’t far behind, despite the slow pace of action in the decades since.
After fighting the 1990 election on a stronger climate platform than Labor, the following two decades saw an ebb and flow of climate scepticism in the Liberal Party, which still continues today.
It’s often a case of ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’ when it comes to many surveys and opinion polls.
The National Archives of Australia today released selected federal cabinet records for 1990 and 1991. They reveal intense battles over Australia’s domestic climate targets and, above all, a palpable determination that Australia not damage its coal revenue.
Thousands will take to the streets across the world ahead of the Paris climate summit - but how much difference have the past 25 years of climate marches made?
Californian rap and jazz poetry may sound like an odd mix – but both are rooted in historic inequalities
1988 marked the first call for climate action from the scientific community. Nearly 30 years later it’s been a bumpy ride.
For as long as the United Nations has been holding climate summits, protesters have been gathering outside them to bemoan the rate of progress and call for tougher action.
When Australia’s government first pledged to set an emission-reduction target, Jon Bon Jovi was riding high in the charts. The progress made in the 25 years since has hardly been a blaze of glory.
From Hawke-Keating to Rudd-Gillard, climate policy has an uncanny ability to cost Australian political leaders their jobs. And it was a key element in the rivalry between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull.
The Minerals Council’s new coal ad is the latest to attract derision online. But for the resources industry, the mockery may just be collateral damage in the wider mission to reach out to its supporters.
For more than a decade the coal industry’s favoured response to climate change was carbon capture and storage, or CCS. CCS is still the main defence, but the absence of functioning projects is making it ever more threadbare.
Carbon tax debates have been happening ever since the late 1980s, when policy-makers first started taking the “greenhouse effect” seriously.
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Senior lecturer in English Language, University of Manchester
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Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
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Postdoctoral research associate, Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
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PhD Researcher, University of Manchester
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Manchester
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1851 Research Fellow, University of Bristol & Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester, University of Manchester
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Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Architectural Humanities, University of Manchester
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Lecturer In Pulsar Astrophysics, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
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Professor of Sociology and History, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester
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PhD student, University of Manchester
