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AR6… or should that be AAAAAARRRRRR!?

Mike Robinson reflects on the latest IPCC report in this aptly named blog.
February 2023

RSGS E:Newsletter: Lyse Doucet FRSGS; An Interview with Robin Hanbury-Tenison; Education Conference; The Geographer; Blog Update.
Shackleton and the men on Elephant Island: a brotherhood of the sea

In 1916 Ernest Shackleton's beloved ship Endurance was crushed by ice and sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea, but what followed was an astonishing story of courage and survival.
Aftershock – how humanitarian aid is helping millions affected by the Turkey Syria Earthquakes

The huge earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria a month ago weren’t necessarily a huge surprise in an area with an historic vulnerability to seismic shocks, but the scale of the devastation was an enormous shock - turning millions of lives upside down in an instant.

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