Children’s lives in the UK are changing. They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased poverty, more destitution and the effects of ongoing austerity are the clear culprits. Prof Danny Dorling explores why this has happened to our children in an article for The Conversation.

An overwhelming majority of survey respondents at a top research university agree that air travel contributes to climate change, but many - especially professors and PhD students - often fly to conferences anyway, according to a study, co-authored by Dr Debbie Hopkins and Prof Tim Schwanen, published last month in Global Environmental Change. The study was featured in an article in Nature in September.

In a recent article in The Times, Oonagh Cousins, a researcher at the School of Geography and the Environment, shares her experience of contracting long Covid and how it has affected her life, including losing the chance to compete in the Olympics. Cousins emphasises the need for more research into long Covid and chronic illnesses like ME.