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Wetlands are the dominant natural source of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas which is second only to carbon dioxide in its importance to climate change. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to enhance methane emissions from wetlands, resulting in further warming. However, wetland methane feedbacks were not fully assessed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, posing a challenge to meeting the global greenhouse gas mitigation goals set under the Paris Agreement.
To understand how wetland methane cycling may evolve and drive climate feedbacks in the future, scientists are increasingly looking to Earth s past. Ice core records indicate that atmospheric methane is very sensitive to climate, but we cannot measure atmospheric methane concentrations beyond them, prior to about 1 million years ago, said Dr Gordon Inglis, lead author and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Student nurses currently working on placements in hospitals have said they have felt vulnerable and left out in the cold, despite their efforts against the coronavirus pandemic, telling The Tab they feel like “sacrificial lambs”.
As well poor conditions during their placements, they’re angry at the lack of protections afforded to them. In September their placements stopped being paid and as a result of being unpaid staff, will not automatically receive a £60,000 payment if they die from Covid, and are only considered on a case by case basis under the NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme
Only recently has the Nursing and Midwifery Council announced it would bring back some emergency standards, such as giving local governments the ability to pay final year students on placement, and giving first year students the option to move to completely to academic or online learning.