Planet Earth
There are 40 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Adaptation and mitigation".
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- 1. Protecting biodiversity in palm oil
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News that chocolate, bread and dried fruit all share a common ingredient with household detergents and cosmetics might sound both unlikely and unappetising. However, palm oil is used in each of these and many more everyday products.
- 2. Flood research by numbers
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NERC flood science saves lives, homes and businesses. Here are a few fast facts on some of our successes.
- 3. How can we work with nature to reduce flood risk?
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Our new video explores how using nature to manage flooding can make a real difference to protecting communities.
- 4. Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution
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Scientists have discovered that mammals successfully evolved over the years by getting smaller in size.
- 5. Genetic toolkit gives periwinkles seashore advantage
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Periwinkles, struggling to survive the seashore battleground, have developed a genetic toolkit to help them adapt to different environments, a new study shows.
- 6. How much time is left to meet the Paris climate agreement?
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Dr Phil Goodwin and Professor Ric Williams ran 100 million simulations of carbon emissions and warming to find out.
- 7. Hay Trans.MISSION Q&A with Chris Haughton and Dr Emily Shuckburgh
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Dr Emily Shuckburgh worked with author and illustrator Chris Haughton to show how scientists measure the impacts of CO2 over time.
- 8. Hay Trans.MISSION Q&A with Dan Binns and Professor Ally Lewis
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Aardman director Dan Binns teamed up with Professor Ally Lewis to explore the surprising amount of air pollution emitted by the home.
- 9. Hay Trans.MISSION Q&A with Nicola Davies and Professor Ed Hawkins
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Poet Nicola Davies teamed up with Professor Ed Hawkins to explore climate and weather in a series of poems set to images.
- 10. Helping species on the move
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Meet the software for working out where species will thrive in future, as global warming pushes them north seeking cooler places and key habitat is lost.
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