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As heatwaves continue, climate adaptation becomes ever more urgent.

@kclgeography researchers studied the 2024 London Cool Spaces scheme and concluded there is more need to address the root causes of overheating, over 'reactive resilience'.

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link.springer.com Escaping the heat: urban heat resilience and public cool spaces Regional Environmental Change - With heatwaves set to increase in frequency, intensity and duration, a policy shift is needed to build climate resilience on national and local levels. In London, a...
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We've heard lots about England football fans travelling to Mexico City for the team's epic World Cup win early this morning. But what about the Mexico fans supporting their team from the UK?

Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Professor of Development Geography at @kclgeography commented in NBC News on London's tiny Mexican diaspora:

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www.nbcnews.com Mexico vs. England World Cup: London expats find community despite loss In direct inverse to the scene in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, red, white and green hunkered down against the white-and-red masses outside.
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Congratulations to two of our academics, Nicola Leveringhaus and Sofia Vasilopoulou, for winning European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grants.

Their awards are for timely research into nuclear weapons commemoration and the populist radical right, respectively.
Four researchers working across different disciplines at King’s have been named recipients of the 2025 @ERC_Research Consolidator Grants.

The ERC has announced a record budget of €728 million to be allocated to recipients this year.

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