Climate Change

Carden Cappi discusses their experience with eco-anxiety, while offering some hopeful advice and sources for those who feel similarly.

During the Just Stop Oil protests in November last year Paul Bell, an Exeter PhD student, was arrested after scaling a gantry on the M25. After spending over a month in HMP Chelmsford prison, he was recently released and is now awaiting trial. Exeposé interviewed Bell, also known as Pasha, about the experience.

Lydia Carter presents illustrations of climate outrage. Is the Just Stop Oil group an accurate representation of the Suffragettes from the century of old? If so, are preventative protesting laws adding monstrous fuel to an already raging fire?

Elizabeth Barber outlines the key debates and impacts of Egypt’s 2022 COP27 in key areas including climate finance and commitment to the 2015 Paris Accord to assess whether the summit was a substantial contribution to climate action or an empty gesture.

News Editor Megan Haynes and Editor-in-Chief Ana Anajuba speak to Professor Tim Lenton, Director of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, about his work on the Earth System and how students can help to reshape the climate crisis.

Hannah Fraser discusses the ramifications and importance surrounding the hurling of soup at Van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers painting by Climate Activists.

Imogen Poyntz-Wright, science editor, discusses how scientists discovered that Greenlands ice caps are causing sea levels to rise much faster than expected.

Charlotte Dent shares her insight and experience on a sustainable dairy farm and provides reassurance about the future of sustainable living.

Rahul Anand discusses the recent findings that pollution has been found in the organs of developing babies and why this has scientists worried.

Isobel Vautier discusses recent findings from the Big Butterfly Count which suggest that butterfly levels are at their lowest in 13 years and that these levels are worrying scientists.