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Fast Fashion vs Slow Fashion Let’s go back to the start of 2020, when many fell under the spell of online shopping [1]The rise of fast fashion brands during the pandemic, Shien for example, started as a trickling stream, and exploded into a waterfall [4]. And...
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A key concern throughout this article is the rate of global heating. Currently, the average global temperature has increased about 1°C compared with pre-industrial levels [1]. Pre-industrial refers to the period before the industrial revolution, 1720-1800 [2]....
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Photo by Lucien Wanda on Pexels How does the plastic we use end up in the ocean? There are several ways that plastic enters the ocean; often, plastic is put in the bin instead of being recycled. Whilst being...
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Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere affects the balance of dissolved carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans, which are a significant carbon sink [1,2]. In the past few decades, more than 525 billion tons of additional atmospheric CO2 has...
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Heatwaves and wildfires In July 2022, for the first time ever recorded, the UK experienced temperatures up to 40°C [1]. This happened in the context of a Europe-wide heatwave so disruptive that wildfires raged across several southern and western European...
