Senior Lecturer in Geography, Keele University
BA Biology (1st Hons) Dalhousie University
Master of Environmental Studies Dalhousie University
Doing laundry by hand sheds just as many microfibres as machine washing – new research
Oct 25, 2023 05:35 am UTC| Life
Between 6,500 and 87,000 tonnes of microfibres are shed during domestic laundering every year in the UK. Many of these minuscule fibres end up in rivers and oceans, with devastating consequences for aquatic animals and...
May 27, 2017 04:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Slavery has been illegal in every country since the last country to do so, Mauritania, criminalised the practice in 2007. But while slavery is illegal, it has not disappeared. Contemporary slavery in the form of indentured...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight