Making the most of the sunshine!
Last week during the mini heatwave, we decided to go for a walk to Victoria Park. Since coming on the initial open day at the University of Leicester I’ve always thought it was lovely to have a campus in such close proximity to nature. It reminded me of home. I took my laptop and […]

What can the UK do to adapt to climate change?
Happy New Year! I can’t quite believe the final term of my degree is already underway – it has gone so fast! As promised in my previous blog about my policy document essay, I would like to share with you a little about I have found about how the UK can adapt to climate change. Flooding Instead […]

My popular science article – Can Veganism Curb Climate Change?
For the module Global Environmental Change, the first coursework piece is to write a 1000 word popular science article i.e. the kind of article that would appear in Nature or New Scientist. Even articles you get on the BBC news website. The idea of the coursework is to take a complex geography issue and present it in a […]

Preperations, revelations and postcards to Paris
The past 2 has been very busy for the Environmental Action Society! We’ve been on a stall in the SU for 3 days, with multiple aims. Firstly to advertise a film screening that we are putting on – Cowspiracy – a film endorsed by Leonardo Di Caprio, about the food industry and the huge secret that […]
Writing for New Scientist
This semester we’ve had some really interesting coursework pieces to complete – instead of plain essays all the time, we’ve been doing quite different pieces of work. For example, in my GIS module I made a portfolio of 8 cartograms, which are maps distorted to represent a particular variable, on a topic of my […]
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