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Royal Scottish Geographical Society unveil Climate Solutions study plan

MSPs, business leaders and newly enrolled university students may be asked to take mandatory climate change studies if plans currently under consideration are adopted. The module and workshop-based studies would help arm them with facts and knowledge to make urgent changes to society as it emerges from COVID-19 lockdown. The Scottish Government has already committed …

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How many empty offices have left their lights on … and why do it anyway?

I’ve discovered a TV series, shot in Belgium. It’s called Unite 42, and is one of those dramas that you can just lose yourself in. A single focus story for each episode, with a number of core sub-plots being teased out along the way. I was drawn to it because I’m trying to learn French …

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Cop 26 Glasgow postponed over Covid-19 but climate crisis remains deadly

It would have been the worst April Fool in history had it not be so utterly, devastatingly true. Confirmation that this year’s planned Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow had been postponed. Of course, it had been expected. It would be all but impossible to do, not with so many deaths, paralysed economies and the risks …

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Accountants for future, 10 ways to save world, #DearScotty

“Climate change could become a “catastrophic” threat to global security, as people lose their livelihoods, fall ill and battle over scarce water and food, a host of U.S. security, military and intelligence experts warned,” reports the Voice of America. It goes on to talk of how Africa and the Middle East are most at risk, …

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Loch Leven bursts banks as Kinross Pier left under water

Scotland’s largest lowland freshwater loch has burst its banks as threatened residents nearby brace themselves for a further 24-hr deluge of winter storms to come. The giant Loch Leven completely swamped the historic Kinross Pier which is no longer visible to passers-by under several feet of water. [wpvideo PPyadduL] It came close to inundating the …

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