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Jan 10, 2025 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Matthew Wright |DPhil Candidate |Nicholas Leach |Shirin Ermis

2024 was another extreme year for the earth’s climate. Extreme flooding in April killed hundreds of people in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A year-long drought has left Amazon river levels at an all-time low. And in Athens, Greece, the ancient Acropolis was closed in the afternoons to protect tourists from dangerous heat.

Nov 25, 2024 | tolerance.ca | DPhil Candidate

By Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang, DPhil (PhD) Candidate in International Development, University of Oxford After a fortnight of bitter struggle, nearly 200 countries agreed a new goal to raise money to tackle the climate crisis at Cop29, the 29th annual UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Nov 25, 2024 | theconversation.com | DPhil Candidate

After a fortnight of bitter struggle, nearly 200 countries agreed a new goal to raise money to tackle the climate crisis at Cop29, the 29th annual UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Rich countries agreed to take the lead in paying US$300 billion a year to the poorest nations by 2035 from a variety of financial sources (public, private, between countries, and across multilateral sources like development banks).

Aug 27, 2024 | theconversation.com | DPhil Candidate

At the end of June, the US Supreme Court upheld an Oregon city’s ban on outdoor camping. The court’s decision means that people experiencing homelessness can be arrested, ticketed and fined for sleeping outside, even when there are no alternatives. The centred on the city of Grants Pass where, in 2019, a class action lawsuit was brought against the municipal authorities for fining and jailing people who were sheltering outdoors in tents.

Jul 12, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Martin McKee |Danny Dorling |Halford Mackinder Professor |Lucinda Hiam |DPhil Candidate

One question that British voters may have asked themselves during the 2024 election campaign is whether they are any better off now than they were in 2010 when the Conservative-led coalition came to power. A recent poll reveals that most Britons (73%) think they are not. This is unsurprising given the evidence. Average incomes have grown more slowly than previously, and economic growth has lagged behind many comparable nations. Public services have worsened.