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- 1. What happened to Helike?
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There is little to see today of Helike, just a few walls and artefacts scraped clean by archaeologists. The great Greek city, famed across the classical world, sunk into the coastal mud of the Gulf of Corinth in 373 BC during a terrible earthquake.
- 2. Climate change spells disaster for small businesses in southern Africa
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What do you picture when you think about climate change? Perhaps you see failing crops, rising sea levels or melting glaciers. But what about struggling small businesses?
- 3. 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.
- 4. 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.
- 5. Scientists closing in on source of Shetland tsunamis
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Shetland has been hit by at least two more tsunamis in the past 10,000 years than previously thought, and scientists are working to identify where the giant waves originated.
- 6. Under the faultlines
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As part of a series of interviews with new NERC Independent Research Fellows, Craig Magee tells us about the portability of being a fellow and why he's going underground to uncover the science behind volcanic eruptions.
- 7. New technology models cities' air quality in under 10 minutes
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Dr Nicola Masey has found that a new system can accurately model air quality in large cities like London in minutes, within five metres of any given location using just a standard office computer.
- 8. 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.
- 9. 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.
- 10. 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.
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