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TV Biologist Demonstrates All That’s Wrong With Public Relations and Science

I haven’t written a blog in a while, and really I only tend to think about writing posts when something in particular irks me or catches my attention. Even then, nine times out of ten I forget about it and don’t

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Posted in Being Green, Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Media

US and Russia embarrass UK and EU in Polar Bear trading fight.

The UK media, which is normally fairly vocal in its support for species protection, remained fairly quiet over the Christmas period with regards to emerging news that the UK government has as of yet failed to back plans to make

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Posted in Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Crime

‘Probably the best in the world’ climate change risk assessment falls short of headline news

So yesterday (Thursday 27/01/12) saw the release of what was probably one of the largest and most important pieces of research carried out on the impacts of UK climate change. The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2012 It was the

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Posted in Climate Change, Environmental Media, Uncategorized

A reinforcing spiral: Blogging and the environment

I am currently undertaking a research project for my masters dissertation entitled ‘How are new social media making scientific controversies public?’. As part of this project, I am currently doing a review of the literature in this area. One article

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Posted in Environmental Media, Uncategorized