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6 January 2022

Forecast for 2022 Iceberg Season off Newfoundland, Canada

The latest forecast, by a team including Professor Grant Bigg and Jennifer Ross, predicts a medium iceberg year.
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9 December 2021

Professor Jenny Pickerill and Dr Ankit Kumar discuss eco-homes in new educational video

The video, produced by Time for Geography, focuses on achieving energy sustainability and examines the challenges to applying sustainable energy solutions.

Time for Geography
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6 December 2021

Dr Ruth Little discusses farming subsidies on BBC Radio 4

Dr Ruth Little was on Farming Today to discuss opportunity to talk about post-Brexit agriculture on 'subsidy week'.

BBC
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15 November 2021

Dr Archie Davies’s translation of a key text of critical geography is published

For a New Geography by Milton Santos has been published in English for the first time.

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