Huge spikes in raw sewage flowing into Rotherham rivers
The number of hours Yorkshire Water dumped sewage into Rotherham’s top ten most polluted locations more than tripled in 2023.
Can Sheffield end new HIV transmissions by 2030?
In anticipation of next week’s Festival of Debate panel, Rei Takver speaks with Sheffield doctor and HIV specialist Dr Claire Dewsnap about what the city still needs to do to tackle the virus.
"You can feel it within your chest...but it's just left because it's Burngreave"
Stark racial divides in air pollution exposure are holding Sheffield back from its anti-racist goals
Should Sheffield ban all outdoor advertising?
The Council just approved a ban on outdoor billboards and panels that sell unhealthy and climate-busting products. It’s an admirable start – but has it gone far enough?
Protesters at University of Sheffield demand the removal of a chaplain who served in Gaza
After announcements that a chaplain who has served in Gaza would be coming to the University of Sheffield campus this week, a group of students and community activists staged a peaceful protest aimed at preventing him from doing so.
New research uncovers a surprising dance of survival and friendship between fungi, plants, and parasites
Plants are capable of making even smarter choices about how to treat their friends and foes than ever previously thought, new research from the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield has found.
A study published last month in Nature found plants can choose to starve out parasites trying to steal sugar from them even while they try, as much as possible, to feed the white threads of mycorrhizal fungi who intertwine wit
A study published last month in Nature found plants can choose to starve out parasites trying to steal sugar from them even while they try, as much as possible, to feed the white threads of mycorrhizal fungi who intertwine wit
Podcast Pilot: Beyond Mardy Bum
Scripting and audio editing.
This Episode: The MOBOs come to Sheffield. What makes the Black music scene here uniquely Sheffield?
This Episode: The MOBOs come to Sheffield. What makes the Black music scene here uniquely Sheffield?
Grouse moor burning: City Council calls for a ban on the “destructive” health-threatening practice
Sheffield City Council Leader Tom Hunt has written a letter calling on Defra to stop the “destructive practice” of grouse moor burning, which caused a huge pall of toxic smoke to blanket Sheffield this autumn.
On 9 October, wealthy owners of two moorland estates, Moscar and Strines, sent Sheffield air pollution levels soaring four to eight times over the UK legal limits after they set fire to their moors. The fires are set by game
On 9 October, wealthy owners of two moorland estates, Moscar and Strines, sent Sheffield air pollution levels soaring four to eight times over the UK legal limits after they set fire to their moors. The fires are set by game
“Black hole” wait times for trans healthcare may be as high as 22 years at Sheffield’s gender identity clinic
A Sheffield trans woman fears she will “more likely die first” than receive the treatment she desperately needs from Sheffield’s gender clinic to fully transition to female.
Newly-released information has revealed that fewer than 1% of people on the trans healthcare waiting list for Sheffield’s Porterbrook Gender Identity Clinic were seen last month.
Amber, 45, made a freedom of information request that showed only eight of the 2,302 trans people on the clinic’s waiting list got appointments b
Newly-released information has revealed that fewer than 1% of people on the trans healthcare waiting list for Sheffield’s Porterbrook Gender Identity Clinic were seen last month.
Amber, 45, made a freedom of information request that showed only eight of the 2,302 trans people on the clinic’s waiting list got appointments b
Scientists lobby MPs over climate change
This week scientists campaigned MPs at Westminster to end new oil and gas drilling. The question is – will their MPs listen?
On normal days, scientists are doing science where they normally do it – in a lab. But this week, a strong-minded coalition of them did something unusual: they left their algae specimens, ice experiments, and urban conservatio
On normal days, scientists are doing science where they normally do it – in a lab. But this week, a strong-minded coalition of them did something unusual: they left their algae specimens, ice experiments, and urban conservatio
From climate worry to climate action—the role of perceived personal, business, and national government responsibility in Brazil
MSc Psychology Dissertation in environmental social science
A mediation analyses of environmental survey data in Brazil
Research based in the Global North has identified that perceptions of personal responsibility for climate change play a strengthening, mediating role in translating worry about climate change into climate actions, including support for climate policies and personal mitigation actions. This research set out to replicate these findings in the Global Southern, Latin American context of Brazil; to consider how different pro-environmental behavioural measures (such as car use reduction) may affect th
A mediation analyses of environmental survey data in Brazil
Research based in the Global North has identified that perceptions of personal responsibility for climate change play a strengthening, mediating role in translating worry about climate change into climate actions, including support for climate policies and personal mitigation actions. This research set out to replicate these findings in the Global Southern, Latin American context of Brazil; to consider how different pro-environmental behavioural measures (such as car use reduction) may affect th
Solastalgia
When you feel homesick for a home you never left, that’s solastalgia.
Solastalgia is when you feel as if the comfort, or solace, you get from feeling at home in a place has been taken from you, causing algia, which means pain in Latin.
With solastalgia, you are still living in the place you call home, but the environment has changed so much that it doesn’t feel like the same home anymore. When experiencing this uncanny, home-but-not-home feeling, a complex mix of emotions can arise—including grief, sadness, loss of identity, and anxiety.
Anything that changes a place and is outside the control of inhabitants can cause feelings of solastalgia.
Solastalgia is when you feel as if the comfort, or solace, you get from feeling at home in a place has been taken from you, causing algia, which means pain in Latin.
With solastalgia, you are still living in the place you call home, but the environment has changed so much that it doesn’t feel like the same home anymore. When experiencing this uncanny, home-but-not-home feeling, a complex mix of emotions can arise—including grief, sadness, loss of identity, and anxiety.
Anything that changes a place and is outside the control of inhabitants can cause feelings of solastalgia.
Episode 3: When a climate disaster hits, how does it impact mental health care?
In Hurricane Ida, Holly lost her house. Then she went right back to providing mental health care to her storm-ravaged community.
What's it been like for Holly and her clients? And what has she learned from the experience that can help clinicians in other climate disasters in the future?
What's it been like for Holly and her clients? And what has she learned from the experience that can help clinicians in other climate disasters in the future?
The rural mental health crisis in drought-stricken Klamath Basin is coming for the entire West
The last time conditions were as dry in the American West as they are in June 2022, it was at least 800 A.D., and possibly earlier. Charlemagne was king of the Franks. The Maori people were migrating on their earliest canoes to New Zealand. To vastly understate—the West Coast is parched, and (due to global warming) the parching trends towards permanence. Aquifers are draining down, and waterways are disappearing. At the end of March, the US federal government informed the agricultural communitie
Episode 1: Climate Anxiety
Climate anxiety. It's getting lots of attention, but is it the right focus for climate-aware mental health?
Radio sample: What was it like to be an NYC TV anchor when Covid hit?
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Emily Has Tourette’s. She Needs You to Hear This.
Imagine protesting, in front of a line of cops, while your involuntary tic disorder forces you to say: F**k pigs! Wankers! Woo!
Should people with conditions like that, or other serious physical or neurological disabilities, protest with XR on the streets?
Meet Emily, from XR Glasgow. Emily was diagnosed with Tourette’s in 2018, and now has to worry, every time she steps out in public, that she’s going to get kicked out of a coffee shop, taunted by fellow bus passenge
Should people with conditions like that, or other serious physical or neurological disabilities, protest with XR on the streets?
Meet Emily, from XR Glasgow. Emily was diagnosed with Tourette’s in 2018, and now has to worry, every time she steps out in public, that she’s going to get kicked out of a coffee shop, taunted by fellow bus passenge
The Keys to Nonviolent Protest: An Interview with Kazu Haga
Nonviolence is like...karate?
Yeah, you read that right.
Perhaps you wouldn’t expect Kazu Haga, a Kingian Nonviolence trainer who has facilitated restorative justice groups in California prisons for twenty years, to dedicate an entire chapter of his new book, Healing Resistance, to nonviolence as martial art. But he does.
And the crazy thing is, he has a point.
Kazu is the rare person you can simultaneously imagine traversing a prison hallway and decorating a cookie. In the three hours I spent with Kazu, he managed to rec
Yeah, you read that right.
Perhaps you wouldn’t expect Kazu Haga, a Kingian Nonviolence trainer who has facilitated restorative justice groups in California prisons for twenty years, to dedicate an entire chapter of his new book, Healing Resistance, to nonviolence as martial art. But he does.
And the crazy thing is, he has a point.
Kazu is the rare person you can simultaneously imagine traversing a prison hallway and decorating a cookie. In the three hours I spent with Kazu, he managed to rec
Extinction Rebellion's Action Wellbeing, A.K.A. The People Holding Your Hand While You’re Locked To A Bathtub
LONDON–It takes only two minutes following Claire, a member of Trafalgar Square’s Action Wellbeing team, before we encounter an arrestee in need.
I never learn this young woman’s name. Within an hour, however, it is hard to imagine that she isn’t my niece, or the neighbor’s college-bound daughter. We find her lying, propped on a sleeping bag on the pavement, with her right arm locked via a wide metal tube to
I never learn this young woman’s name. Within an hour, however, it is hard to imagine that she isn’t my niece, or the neighbor’s college-bound daughter. We find her lying, propped on a sleeping bag on the pavement, with her right arm locked via a wide metal tube to
