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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 Charlotte Gehrke

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 roxane.hubert@gmail.com

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 […]