UCL in the media
Record-breaking British heatwave portends summers to come
“[Existing] 1.2 degrees of global warming is really causing changes in our climate…If we hit 1.5 degrees global warming in the future, we will see summers being even hotter and drier than now,” said Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography).
Stonehenge as an elite cemetery
Professor Mike Parker Pearson and Dr Christie Willis (both UCL Archaeology) think that Stonehenge served as an “elite cemetery” for ancient people who lived up to many miles away after finding little evidence of violence in the remains found buried there.
Scant data collected about police strip searches
Dr Matteo Tiratelli (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) criticises the Metropolitan Police for lax data collection on strip searches. “For example, in some years, more than half of cases were reported without a record of how old the person was.”
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Wasps are prodigious pollinators
Wasps help pollinate more 960 species of plant, of which, 164 are totally reliant on the winged insects, said Professor Seirian Sumner (UCL Biosciences).
Why cooperate?
Professor Nichola Raihani (UCL Psychology & Language Science) explores the evolutionary and social roots of cooperation in humans.
Green jobs not an economic panacea for the North
“The needs of a place like South Shields are complex and are going to require a more multi-faceted set of solutions than supporting the emergence of green industries,” said Professor John Tomaney (UCL Bartlett School of Planning).
Air pollution linked to dementia
“Inaction now will cost people the ability to live independent, healthy lives in years to come… The evidence is very strong that exposure to air pollutants is likely to increase your risk of dementia,” said Professor Nick Fox (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).
Famine and disease drove the evolution of lactose tolerance in Europe
Prehistoric Europeans consumed milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults, finds a new study led by Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) and University of Bristol researchers.
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Russian literature not being supressed in the West
“There is very little evidence that Russian culture has been relegated into oblivion. Russian culture has had hundreds of years of great prestige in the west,” said Dr Uilliam Blacker (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies).
No stopping oil and gas development
“Whenever, wherever oil and gas is found, every government in the world, despite anything it may have said [about climate], tries to pump it out of the ground and into the atmosphere,” said Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources).