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EJRU News: Student Conference, Trips to New York and Jane Bennett Visit Scheduled

EJRU News: Student Conference, Trips to New York and Jane Bennett Visit Scheduled

Posted on 12 April 2019 by Hannah Hughes

With the Easter holiday approaching it seems like a good time to reflect on and celebrate some of the EJRU research activities and events, particularly the students’ contribution to these […]

The Hardest Pill to Swallow: The Impact of Drugs on the Environment

Posted on 7 March 2019 by Ellie Griffin

Yuko Shimizu Drugs, both illicit and legal, are an unspoken and largely unreported contributor to environmental degradation. They affect the environment in a magnitude of ways, many of which have […]

Buzzkill: The Case of Colony Collapse Disorder

Buzzkill: The Case of Colony Collapse Disorder

Posted on 29 January 2019 by Arctic Relations

Telling the Bees In the nineteenth century, it was believed that if a household caring for a bee colony failed to tap their key on the hive and tell the […]

Ocean Acidification: Climate Change’s Evil Twin

Ocean Acidification: Climate Change’s Evil Twin

Posted on 20 July 2018 by [email protected]

GEP Student Blog “We are all aware of climate change, but we need to talk more about ocean change, and the effects of acidification” Peter Thomspon, UN Ambassador for the […]

Help! I can’t afford to be eco-friendly!

Help! I can’t afford to be eco-friendly!

Posted on 19 June 2018 by Natali Zhivkova

GEP Student Blog: How does plastic pollution affect our planet and why do people keep buying single-use plastics? Plastic: The Good, the Bad and the Questionable Plastic may be one […]

GEP Student Blogging

GEP Student Blogging

Posted on 18 June 2018 by Hannah Hughes

Global Environmental Politics is a third year Politics and International Relations module. One of the student assignments for this course is a blog, where I ask students to blog on […]

Cardiff Law Students Reflect on Bee-Harming Pesticides

Cardiff Law Students Reflect on Bee-Harming Pesticides

Posted on 15 January 2018 by Elen Stokes

By Hannah Choong, Louise Formisano, Timothy Gong, Haylea Marriott and Marina Soares Ingles This blog post is written by a group of undergraduate Law students currently studying Environmental Law & […]

Reflections on the Student-led Environmental Law Conference, March 2017

Reflections on the Student-led Environmental Law Conference, March 2017

Posted on 26 June 2017 by Ben Pontin

This blog reflects on a recent event hosted by the Unit which illustrates the centrality of students to the work of the Unit. It is customary in research terms to […]