The song of humpback whales as they swim off the shore of New York has been recorded for the first time, by a series of underwater microphones, scientists claim. The discovery involved scouring through thousands of hours of audio data for signs of whale call, explained Julia Zeh, a doctoral student at Syracuse University in … Read more
Over the past 30 years, a third of all deaths where heat played a part, have been blamed on human-induced global warming, according to a new study. Data from 737 locations in 42 countries was used by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to estimate the impact of global warming … Read more
Over the past 30 years, a third of all deaths where heat played a part, have been blamed on human-induced global warming, according to a new study. Data from 737 locations in 42 countries was used by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to estimate the impact of global warming … Read more
Children born in the summer are ‘unfairly labelled’ as having special needs by primary schools, because they’re the youngest in their class, an expert argues. Dr Tammy Campbell, a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says summer-born primary school kids are disproportionately given the ‘special educational needs or disabilities’ (SEND) label. … Read more
Children born in the summer are ‘unfairly labelled’ as having special needs by primary schools, because they’re the youngest in their class, an expert argues. Dr Tammy Campbell, a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says summer-born primary school kids are disproportionately given the ‘special educational needs or disabilities’ (SEND) label. … Read more