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Climate Change and Nigeria

Legal Planet

Lagos is also subject to flooding from rivers, extreme rain, and the sea, all of which will worsen with climate change. Further, civil society lacks both the capacity and the resources to effectively engage with government and advocate for change.” The population of Lagos is now around 15 million.

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DCNR State Parks April Environmental Education Newsletter Celebrates Earth Month

PA Environment Daily

The April issue of DCNR State Parks Environmental Education newsletter helps educator celebrate Earth Month with features like this-- -- How To Make Every Day Earth Day -- Teaching Ideas For Earth Day, Amphibian Week + More! -- Subject To Climate - Earth Day Activity Bundle -- Celebrate Arbor Day April 26 -- Explore the Outdoors - Leave No Trace Series (..)

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Everyday Christmas: The Gift of the Commons

Legal Planet

In short, from the view of any one individual, these are freebies, gifts from nature and society as a whole. They are also subject to the tragedy of the commons: the inevitable temptation to overuse resources that you don’t have to pay for. We get those regardless of whether we pay taxes or how much or how little we consume.

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Rome and the sea of law

Environment, Law, and History

The latter is echoed in literary sources, which often focus on the sea’s enormity and wilderness, thus evoking — and sometimes even exaggerating — its aura of mystery and uncertainty and the effect it has in ancient societies.

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Working with societies – join us in conversation with Society Street 

Frontiers

How can publishers best support societies in the increasingly complex landscape of scholarly publishing? Organized by Society Street , a forum for leaders and future leaders of scholarly societies, the online discussion will be the second in a two-part series for and about society publishers.

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Humans don’t hibernate, but we still need more winter sleep

Frontiers

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Society and technology impose sleep and wake schedules on people, especially in urban environments with lots of light pollution. This study needs to be replicated in a large cohort of healthy subjects,” cautioned Kunz.

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Frontiers announces its first partnership with a leading Chinese University

Frontiers

Established in 1984, Zhejiang University Press covers a diverse spectrum of subjects in natural sciences, engineering and technology, the humanities and social sciences, medicine and life sciences. Commenting on this new agreement, Frontiers’ head of partnerships Dr.