Demand for vegan food grew by 987% in 2017 and is now the fastest growing takeaway choice in the UK. Almost half of the UK’s vegan population made the transition in 2018, a clear sign of the movement’s growth. By 2025, it is widely expected that one quarter of the UK population will be vegan….
Gaming
Review: Metro Exodus
Of the many post-apocalyptic video games released over the last decade or so, titles in the Metro franchise have often came as close to the most typical – and, in a sense, brutalistic – visions of a broken future after economic, social and environmental catastrophe. Opening with a nuclear winter that rages across what was…
News
Student Officers for 2019 announced
UEASU has announced the winners of this year’s SU Officer elections. Three candidates were re-elected, including Sophie Atherton as Campaigns and Democracy Officer, Postgraduate Education Officer Martin Marko, and Mature Students’ Officer Sanna Mantyniemi. The position of Activities & Opportunities Officer was won by Alicia Perez Lopez. Callum Perry was announced as Undergraduate Education Officer,…
Climate Change, Uncategorized
Effective environmental policy sees CO2 emissions decline, reveals Tyndall Centre Research
A study conducted by UEA professors at the Tyndall Centre has revealed that CO2 emissions are declining in 18 developed economies, including the UK, USA and Germany. The nations in question represent 28 percent of emissions worldwide and so this reduction could see a significant decrease in overall global emissions. The team at Tyndall examined…
News
UEA selected for BAFTA screen industries project
The British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) has selected UEA as a partner university for its new course on the environmental impacts of producing media. BAFTA has partnered with Albert, a project aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of the television and film industries, to create a course starting at ten UK universities for…
Global
Worldwide student strike for climate change action
On 15 March, tens of thousands of schoolchildren are expected to go on strike worldwide, in a global mobilisation protest against climate change. With plans for strikes in more than 150 cities, it will follow months of action that has seen pupils taking to the streets, from Accra to Auckland, and Strasbourg to Seattle. The…
Science
Fashion of the future?
Clothes shopping is an undeniable part of western culture, but just how harmless is this treasured pastime? People are becoming more and more aware of the damaging effects that over-farming and over-fishing has on the environment, however a little-known fact is that the multi-trillion-dollar fashion industry is harmful to the environment in its own right….
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Iceland Christmas advert: too political or too pertinent?
Iceland has launched a Christmas advert campaign to raise awareness for deforestation. The narration is by Emma Thompson, in collaboration with Greenpeace. However Clearcast, the NGO that decides which ads to approve, banned it because it was “too political”, according to the 2003 Communications Act. It shows an animation of an orangutan in a girl’s…
Environment, Science
The environmental condom conundrum
Jacob Beebe investigates the environmental impact of condoms.
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