How climate change threatens pregnant women
Manpreet Kaur unpacks how climate change is not only a worldwide environmental issue, but also a threat to public health and pregnant women.
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Windfall Tax: Cure to Nation’s Ills?
With the cost-of-living crisis biting, Manpreet Kaur analyses the calls for a windfall tax and whether it could provide the support families need
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‘Chemical Warrior’ by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is a human yet harrowing insight into the world of chemical warfare
Manpreet Kaur gives a rating of five stars to Chemical Warrior, an in-depth look at the reality of chemical warfare in the modern day.
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Making STEM workplaces LGBTQ+ inclusive
Manpreet Kaur looks into how LGBTQ+ inclusive STEM workplaces are and what we can all do to improve this.
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Pollution and poverty, a vicious circle
Pollution is a significant cause of death in our world today. The total number of diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated nine million premature deaths globally in 2015 alone. This is three times more deaths than from AIDS, TB, and malaria, and a shocking 15 times more...
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The Green Opinion: Overpopulation is not the main issue, just a discourse used to ignore uncomfortable truths
As somewhat of a climate action enthusiast, I am often reading about the various factors at play contributing to the biggest challenge we are facing today, climate change. Seeing pictures of the air pollution, stemming from the traffic in Delhi is common in articles discussing this looming crisis. Or pictures...
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A seafaring nation: global Britain
After leaving the European Union (EU) earlier this year, arguably with a whimper not a bang, one of the next steps in our drive to become a global Britain is arrangements and deals with the rest of the world which would both literally and metaphorically open Britain to all parts...
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The positive environmental impact of the LGBTQ+ community
The discussion around intersectionality and social justice in regards to climate change is often focussed, and rightly so, on the ways in which marginalised communities are at a greater risk than the rest of the public. Increasingly, we learn how climate is a gender issue, a class issue, and a race issue,...
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Chemists at the University of Warwick come up with new technique to map the exact location of atoms in molecules
Renowned physicist Richard Feynman once said that the easiest way to analyse any complex chemical compound would be to look at it and see where the atoms are. While this may sound amusing, Chemists from the Warwick Chemistry Department, have been making use of an instrument called Scanning Tunnelling Microscope...
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Books based on true stories are more inspiring
Manpreet Kaur argues that if a book is based on a true story, both the author and the story itself become much more inspiring in her eyes
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Consent and clinical trials in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya
It is unsettling to report that The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently organised a vaccination trial without obtaining informed consent from participants. Instead, they obtained ‘implied’ consent. The world of CRISPR (a technology used to edit genes), data science, and AI are currently getting to grips with ethics and science...
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Royal College of Physicians re-examine euthanasia
As with all ‘grey area’ topics, having an opinion on euthanasia is tough. This age-old debate has probably been around since the idea of ‘mercy killing’ first entered people’s minds. Recently, the discussion gained strength amongst doctors in Britain. It sought to identify whether British doctors believe that the RCP should...
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How should governments respond to the fall in road traffic levels in the aftermath of the pandemic?
Painful and tragic as the Covid-19 outbreak is, it is certainly going to leave us all with an altered vision of our societies. As the majority of people in the UK follow the government’s advice to stay home, we are naturally seeing a drop in road travel. The coronavirus pandemic has brought...
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