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How green is your breakfast (spinach smoothie aside)? Alice Garvey conducted some stomach-rumbling research into the carbon footprints of some of our favourite foods to find out. Although a traditional full English might be many readers’ morning feast of choice, it’s not so kind on the planet thanks to its heavy use of meat and dairy products. But luckily there are some simple ways to make it much more environmentally friendly.
When the Taliban announced its new government, it was predictably stacked with hardliners – with no posts for women. And while it has since emerged that women will be allowed to attend school and university, they will be segregated by gender, forced to adhere to strict dress codes and banned from taking part in sport. So it’s not surprising that women are at the forefront of protests against the new regime with its discriminatory measures.
Plus we hear why the rise of a linguistic trick known as a “snowclone” may be useful in helping people digest the huge changes to society we’ve seen over the last two years.
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Imogen Malpas
Commissioning Editor, Environment + Editor
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One of the most popular UK breakfasts is less than friendly to the environment.
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Alice Garvey, University of Leeds
Green eggs and bacon anyone? The substitutes you need to make to change your traditional full English into a breakfast which is healthier for the planet – and for you.
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Women are at the forefront of protests in Afghanistan’s cities.
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Weeda Mehran, University of Exeter
Segregation and other measures being introduced by the Taliban’s hardline new government are being greeted with widespread protests, many of them led by women.
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Snowclones that became popular during COVID.
David Tizón Couto, Universidade de Vigo
More than cliches for lazy journalists, ‘snowclones’ are creative devices that have helped people digest the shock of the pandemic a little better.
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Environment + Energy
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Xiaoming Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Atul Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A new study provides a detailed way to calculate the climate impact of food production, which could lead to more sustainable farming policies and methods.
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Jacopo Torriti, University of Reading; Timur Yunusov, University of Reading
Time-poor households, like single parent families, are caught between rising prices and unhelpful tariffs.
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Lily van Eeden, Monash University; Emily McLeod, Queensland University of Technology; Fern Hames, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research; Zoe Squires, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Roaming pet cats can kill more than 180 animals each year. But most people who keep cats inside do so for the welfare of their pet.
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Sissel Sjöberg, Lund University
Researchers think songbirds and waders may seek very cold temperatures at high altitudes to counteract the heat caused by solar radiation.
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Politics + Society
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Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester
Interviewees describe ‘scrimping and saving’ to make ends meet.
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Iyan Offor, Birmingham City University
The plan to criminalise pet theft is more about pet owners’ wellbeing than for the animals themselves.
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Ed Turner, Aston University
After a rocky start, the social democrats are on the up as polling day approaches.
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Benedetta Zocchi, Queen Mary University of London
European leaders expressed solidarity with people trapped in Kabul with no reference to the people trapped in makeshift camps on its periphery.
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Science + Technology
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Ben Egliston, Queensland University of Technology; Marcus Carter, University of Sydney
Facebook is adamant its new “smart glasses” won’t be a privacy nightmare. But it is clearly bidding to normalise the use of wearable tech. And if video Ray-Bans go mainstream, what comes next?
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Wendy Whitman Cobb, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
The Inspiration4 mission is sending four civilians to space for three days. Though still funded by a billionaire, the mission is a step forward in the nascent space tourism industry.
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Health
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Colin Angus, University of Sheffield
Counting the number of unvaccinated people is surprisingly hard.
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