Expert Comment
James Blake, University of Warwick’s Centre for Space Domain Awareness, on first ever space debris penalty
James Blake, Research Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Centre for Space Domain Awareness, reacts to the US government issuing first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network.
Professor Richard Napier on extreme season climates and crop growth
Professor Napier sheds light on how changing seasons due to the rising climate is impacting crop growth.
Warwick astrophysicists on Osiris-Rex/Asteroid Bennu
Professor Boris Gänsicke and Dr Minjae Kim, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, comment on Nasa's Osiris-Rex capsule returning into Earth's atmosphere.
Professor Ivo Vlaev comments on World Car Free Day
Off the back of the Prime Minister's climate change u-turn and concerns that the UK won't reach Net Zero in time, are awareness days like World Car Free Day (22nd September 2023) enough to 'nudge' us into being more environmentally conscious?
Professor Thijs Van Rens reacts to Rishi Sunak watering down UK Net Zero commitments
Professor Thijs Van Rens, an economist at the University of Warwick commented: “The sleight of hand by Rishi Sunak here is truly scandalous. To announce that the government is stopping ‘heavy handed measures’ that were never government policy in the first place, such as meat taxes, sorting rubbish into seven bins or compulsory car shares, takes the public for fools. Some of these suggestions, such as compulsory car sharing, aren’t in place anywhere, let alone here in the UK...