Resources challenge
Resources challenge
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UK Water Research and Innovation Framework Launched The UK Water Research and Innovation Framework is launched with the support of RCUK's Living With Environmental Change Champion, Dan Osborn. |
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Seaweed's Big Comeback? 200 years ago, in Napoleon’s heyday, burning seaweed was a lifeline for communities in the Western Isles cut off by war from their usual sources of fuel. Two centuries later, is the wheel turning full circle? The joint UK-Irish BioMara project... |
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Land Use - How to push the right policy buttons Computer-based tools for better decision-making. Understanding a decision’s impact for policy-makers is an imperative that never goes away. Take a policy to change land use. It won’t just affect farmers’ incomes and grain prices. Any resulting increase in fertiliser use, for instance,... |
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In for the Krill Protection for marine life relies on evidence from an LWEC stock-taking activity 2009 saw a milestone in marine conservation. A 94,000km2 area of ocean, south of the South Orkney Islands which lie just 600km from Antarctica, was designated a Marine Protected Area – the first in... |
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Nutrients on the move Helping the water and agricultural industries plan for chemicals on the move. Nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon underpin the health and growth of all plants and animals. But what impact will rising temperatures and different rainfall patterns caused by climate... |
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Aiding Africa’s Quest for Water Huge store of water is discovered underground in Africa. |
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