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Some 210 million years ago, Britain consisted of many islands, surrounded by warm seas. Europe at the time lay farther south, at latitudes equivalent to North Africa today. Much of Europe was hot desert, and at this point was flooded by a great sea – the Rhaetian Transgression.

Published in Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, the Bristol team's work is the most extensive study yet, based on more than 26,000 identified fossils, of the Rhaetian shallow sea sharks, bony fishes, marine reptiles, and other creatures. Unusually, five members of the team were undergraduates when they did the work, and this was part of a series of summer internships.

The team was led by Ellen Mears, now a postgraduate at the University of Edinburgh, and Valentina Rossi, now a postgraduate at the University of Cork.

Ellen Mears said: "I studied the shark and fish teeth, and found remains of at least seven species of sharks and four of bony fishes. The sharks were all predators, but some were quite small. The bony fishes were unusual because many of them were shell crushers."

En estos momentos, se menciona cada vez más que la posición de una empresa en cuestiones sociales y ambientales desempeña un papel importante en la satisfacción del empleado para trabajar en la organización. Una encuesta reciente encontró que más del 50% de los trabajadores comentan haber decidido trabajar para empresas “verdes” si hubieran tenido la oportunidad, por lo que esto es un elemento importante para atraer a los mejores. Las mujeres y Generación Y, en particular, trabajan en una empresa por la misión de ella misma y así ir más allá de la rentabilidad, que abarca beneficios para la comunidad en general (sociales, ambientales y económicos). Ellos están dispuestos a trabajar con empresas en las que sienten que pueden hacer la diferencia.

Estos “nuevos individuos” impulsados por el valor llegan a trabajar para una organización y están completamente involucrarlos de una manera significativa, pero ¿cómo asegurar que participen la mayoría de sus empleados incluso los que están sentados en el Status quo?

1. Definir lo que la organización entiende como Sustentabilidad

En primer lugar, es necesario medir cómo los empleados y los diversos niveles de la organización ven el compromiso de la organización con la sustentabilidad.

Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter are one step closer to developing a new generation of low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. The structure is one of the world's first examples of a tri-layer metasurface absorber using a carbon interlayer.

Imagine trying to relax in your home while being bombarded with the explosive sounds of shotgun blasts as well as freight trains rumbling by. For many whales, dolphins and other marine life that depend on their hearing to survive, there is no way to escape the loud, human-made noises in their ocean home. The main culprits are vessels like cargo ships, along with sonar guns used by the U.S. Navy and air guns used in seismic oil and gas exploration. Their blasts are so loud that they are known to change the behavior of blue whales. But now, in what Michael Jasny, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Marine Mammal Protection Project, Land & Wildlife Program, referred to as “a sea change in the way we manage ocean noise off our shores,” NOAA has announced it plans to take action to reduce the noise in entire marine ecosystems.

El presidente Barack Obama y el presidente indio Narendra Modi firmaron un pacto la semana pasada extendiendo un compromiso establecido originalmente en 2014, para unir fuerzas para combatir el cambio climático con un enorme compromiso con la energía renovable.