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What is Climate Change?
Sometimes when people say the climate is getting warmer it sounds quite nice – most of us would love a...

Chemistry & Climate Change = Connected?
Have you noticed that the weather can go from sunny blue skies, to pouring rain at the drop of a hat?! Well,...

Chemistry of Soil
There's chemistry in pretty much everything - even soil! Let's go back to basics, what is soil? There's...

Air
Pollution in the atmosphere traps heat, causing the earth’s temperature to rise. So, reducing levels...

Plastics
New research is confirming that single use plastic bottles are one of the fastest growing contributors to...

Agriculture
Every day, over 800 million people go to bed hungry and with a rise in global population expected, that...

Transport
Road vehicles are currently the UK’s largest contributor to greenhouse gases… and it doesn’t seem to...

Green Chemistry
Green chemistry involves creation on the molecular level - going right down to the tiniest particles and...

How Chemistry Helps Spot Climate Change
Air is a mixture of gases and particles. Most of those gases aren’t harmful – like nitrogen and...

Oceans
The oceans are something called a “carbon sink”. That means they grab CO2 from the atmosphere and...