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Sex from molecules to elephants (edX)

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Sex from molecules to elephants (edX)
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Sex is, intriguingly, the universal mode of animal and plant reproduction. This unique course, filmed entirely on location, contrasts the richness of sex with its evolutionary conserved foundations, exploring the African savanna, Yellowstone national park, coral reefs, museums, and labs.

Using Systems Thinking to Tackle the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis (FutureLearn)

Feb 27th 2023
Using Systems Thinking to Tackle the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis (FutureLearn)
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Discover how switching to a systems mindset could help overcome the global environmental challenges we face today. Take a big picture approach to the climate and biodiversity crisis. With crises as vast, complex, and interconnected as climate change and biodiversity loss, focusing on one aspect of the problem will [...]

The Great Sustainability Transition: Global Challenges, Local Actions (FutureLearn)

Jan 16th 2023
The Great Sustainability Transition: Global Challenges, Local Actions (FutureLearn)
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Discover how global environmental crises are connected, their impacts, and how to take action in your local community. Learn from experts in environmental science at Leiden University. We are living in an era of unprecedented environmental change. As a result, we are experiencing biodiversity loss, climate change, and overuse [...]

Climate Action in Biodiverse Landscapes (edX)

There is no planet B. It's time to take effective climate action for which collaboration and innovation are key. This online course will boost your knowledge and skills to help you move from analysis to action in order to develop climate smart landscapes across the world. The question is [...]

The Science and Practice of Sustainable Development (edX)

Learn the critical foundations of sustainable development and how to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals that are deeply interconnected in the field. This course introduces the origin and key concepts of sustainability and how to apply those to sustainable development practice. Sustainable development will be explored through theories [...]

Environmental Protection and Sustainability (edX)

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Environmental Protection and Sustainability (edX)
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Uncover better solutions to help manage a wide range of environmental problems and challenges facing our world today. Do you want to understand more about the environmental problems we currently face? Do you want to learn ways we can reduce the negative effects of these problems, and keep our [...]

Strong sustainability and Europe (FUN)

Sustainable development, popularized by the Brundtland Report, was defined at the end of the 1980s in three spheres (economic, environmental and social). It is this representation that continues today to be disseminated to the public and to large companies. The objective of this MOOC is to question the major [...]

Extinctions: Past and Present (FutureLearn)

Discover the diversity of life on earth, the impacts of five past mass extinctions and the prospect of a sixth extinction today. This free online course explores how life on earth has been shaped by five mass extinction events in the distant past. At present, biodiversity is facing a [...]

Biological Diversity (Theories, Measures and Data sampling techniques) (Coursera)

The course presents an overview of the theory behind biological diversity evolution and dynamics and of methods for diversity calculation and estimation. We will become familiar with the major alpha, beta, and gamma diversity estimation techniques. Understanding how biodiversity evolved and is evolving on Earth and how to correctly [...]

Life Below Water: Conservation, Current Issues, Possible Solutions (FutureLearn)

Jan 24th 2022
Life Below Water: Conservation, Current Issues, Possible Solutions (FutureLearn)
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Explore the human impact on underwater biodiversity, ecosystems, and animals, and solutions for preserving life below water. Develop knowledge and research skills in marine conservation. It is widely accepted that the phenomenal biodiversity within underwater ecosystems and habitats has been very negatively affected by human interaction. The exact nature [...]