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The climate change clues hidden in Canaletto’s paintings of Venice
Canaletto's paintings of Venice portray an apparently timeless city. But look a little closer, and all is not as it seems
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'To the ends of the Earth': an astrophotographer's hunt for a clear night sky
How far would you travel for a clear night sky? Derek Horlock's passion for astrophotography takes him all around the world
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The artistic legacy of the Van de Veldes
How the founders of British marine painting inspired generations of artists, including J.M.W. Turner
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A Van de Velde drawing lesson
Notes, inscriptions and observations fill many of the Van de Velde drawings. What can they tell us about their artistic process?
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Drawing paper and materials
What did the Van de Veldes use to create their detailed ship portraits and maritime sketches?
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Ice cores and climate change
By extracting ice cores from Antarctica, scientists are able to travel more than 800,000 years back into Earth’s climate history
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'A banal and depraved business' – how Museum archives help to expose the realities of the transatlantic slave trade
Records, newspapers, notes and pamphlets can offer a window into the lives of enslaved people
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The peoples of the Pacific: on the 'front line' of climate change
What is the impact of global change change on Pacific communities? And what should the global response be when a person’s homeland is literally ‘going under’?
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What's in a name? From Boaty McBoatface to RRS Sir David Attenborough
Find out more about how the UK's most advanced polar research ship came to be named after Sir David Attenborough
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Is Venice flooding getting worse?
Venice has always been at risk of flooding. But with climate change causing more damaging storms more often, is the future of this historic city under threat?