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Environmental engagement projects receive COVID-19 funding awards

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Five innovative public engagement projects to tackle challenges caused by COVID-19 have received funding from NERC.

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Can you help find environmental solutions to COVID-19?

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A ground-breaking events series will take place later this month to find environmental solutions to COVID-19 and NERC is seeking participants with a range of expertise.

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NERC invests £500,000 to scope a national Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure

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A consortium led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology began a 15-month study in May 2020 to scope the requirements for a new national NERC Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure.

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Espiral: Translating the complexities of conservation

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The impact of social and political systems on Colombian forests is explored through a short story from a collaboration between NERC and Hay Festival

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Day Zero and Chips: Communicating the impact of UK droughts

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A new film from a collaboration between NERC and Hay Festival explores how day-to-day life might change when the water runs dry.

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