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At full speed, a fighter jet can burn through hundreds of gallons of fuel per minute. When you add up the emissions caused by all the planes, ships, tanks and missiles used by militaries across the world you get a substantial “carbon bootprint”.
But though every country in the world is represented at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, their militaries are not. That’s despite the total emissions of armed forces and their suppliers being larger than civil aviation and shipping combined. In fact, thanks to exemptions written into the Paris Agreement, militaries don’t even need to report how much carbon they are emitting or where. One group of academics has done their best to track these emissions.
We also look at how Facebook plans to create a “metaverse” could further monetise the student experience and exploit the work of academics. Plus scientists have discovered why giant pandas are black and white.
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Will de Freitas
Environment + Energy Editor
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Doug Weir, King's College London; Benjamin Neimark, Lancaster University; Oliver Belcher, Durham University
Military emissions reporting is only voluntary. And what we cannot see, they will not cut.
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The metaverse promises overlap between real and digital worlds.
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John Preston, University of Essex
The metaverse may change how profit is made in higher education.
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Tim Caro, University of Bristol; Nick Scott-Samuel, University of Bristol; Ossi Nokelainen, University of Jyväskylä
The scientists who discovered that a giant panda’s distinctive markings provide camouflage from predators tell us about their latest work
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Environment + Energy
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Emma Garnett, University of Cambridge
Coal, cars, cash and trees: but what about the cows?
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Joanna Collingwood, University of Warwick; Georgia Kremmyda, University of Warwick; Modupe Olufunmilayo Jimoh, University of Warwick
Women’s climate knowledge is often overlooked, despite it being a vital resource for adapting to a warming world.
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Eloise Marais, UCL; Karn Vohra, UCL
Fossil fuels account for one in five premature adult deaths each year.
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Danny Coles, University of Plymouth
Subsidies could help kickstart cost cutting and innovation in this prohibitively expensive industry.
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Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
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Jane Sunderland, Lancaster University
Twenty years after the release of the first Harry Potter film, does he continue to charm children and adults alike?
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Cathy Mason, University of Cambridge
The novelist and philosopher’s views on love and relationships can help us be better friends.
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Ini Dele-Adedeji, University of Bristol; Amanda Schmid-Scott, Newcastle University; Gernot Klantschnig, University of Bristol
Livelihoods which communities have relied on for centuries are being criminalised by heavy-handed state restrictions.
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Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham
It’s vital not to lose sight of who the people trapped on the Belarus/Poland border are and how they came to be there.
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Gayle Doherty, University of St Andrews
Some people do inherit traits which promote dance ability - but with hard work almost anyone can learn to dance well due to the plasticity of the brain
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