5th May 2025

The Ocean, Climate Change, and the Future.

The majority of Planet Earth is covered by oceans. Vast expanses of water that contain an ancient and delicately balanced ecosystem. Although rainforests are often described as the lungs of the planet, oceans absorb more carbon from our atmosphere, generate more oxygen, and provide a home to millions of marine animals, plants, and microscopic life.

21st April 2025

Sustainable Urban Planning - Copenhagen and the Path to Climate Resilience

The term “sustainable urban planning” can be defined as “a holistic approach to developing and managing cities that prioritises long-term environmental, social, and economic sustainability.” The concept is holistic in the sense that it attempts to model cities for the future, considering a multitude of different targets. These targets include resilience against extreme weather events, reducing pollution, protecting wildlife/green spaces, and improving the quality of life for residents.

15th May 2021

The Facts and the Fictions of the Fast Fashion Industry

Fast fashion is a relatively new factor in the climate crisis. Before the 20th Century, most British people had a few outfits that were tailor-made for the rich, or hand-sewn for the poor. The material was expensive and was often reused to make many different garments across one person's lifetime.

28th April 2021

Government Hypocrisy: Cumbria and Cop26

Last year, the UK government announced that due to the pandemic, the UN Climate Change Conference scheduled for November 2020, would be delayed by a year.

1st April 2021

Rape Culture in UK Schools

In what is being referred to as education’s #metoo moment, recent weeks have seen an outpouring of sexual abuse stories posted online, mostly detailing sexual misconduct in the British school system.

8th March 2021

International Women’s Day 2021 and the Fight to End Violence Against Women

International Women’s Day 2021 preceded a pretty unfortunate couple of weeks for women in the UK. The day itself is a tradition we have celebrated since 1975. Then, it was an unprecedented mandate to celebrate women, at a time when we did not know social or economic freedom.

15th February 2021

Environmental Racism: Why are Black and Brown Communities More Exposed to Pollution?

Environmental Racism is an international social and climate issue that affects millions of people across the world, and yet it is not something that everybody understands, and many people still consider it to be a myth. The official definition of environmental injustice (or environmental racism), describes it as a “form of systemic racism, whereby communities of colour are disproportionately burdened with health hazards

19th January 2021

The Pandemic Plastic Problem: Single Use Masks and the Environmental Impact.

When the Coronavirus Pandemic began to take international effect in the early spring of last year, there was a mad scramble by scientists, advisors, and politicians to understand and design a plan to resist the virus. A large part of this involved the supply of PPE, or personal protective equipment, to those working on the front line, which was undertaken with moderate success in the UK.

30th December 2020

Sustainable Seafood: How and Why it Needs to Happen

Overfishing is one of many problems that has emerged as a result of continuous exploitation of Earth’s natural resources. The fishing industry has relied on the mass sale of cheaply caught seafood since the establishment of industrial fishing in the early 20th century. It is no secret that the world’s oceans, and the delicate ecosystems that they support, are suffering as a result of these unsustainable practices.

18th December 2020

America and Climate Change: Is this the Start of a Climate revolution?

The dust of the 2020 U.S. election is starting to settle, and although President Donald Trump contested the result with all of his might, it seems that the era of Trump is ending, and there is a huge potential for political change in the United States.