Entries for 'Earth and environment'
How humans have refashioned riverbanks
Professor Mark Williams, Dr Juan Carlos Berrio, and PhD researchers Amy Wrisdale, Molly Desorgher and Hannah Sellers, School of Geography,...
Humanity’s energy binge has pushed back Earth’s next Ice Age
Academics from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment explore how our planet has entered a new epoch shaped...
Relief, recovery and prioritising
Dr Ayse Yildiz, Lecturer in Risk, discusses the earthquake disaster in Turkey regarding the relief, recovery and the UK’s support.
The global impact of a new Research Institute
Professor Heiko Balzter explains how the new Institute for Environmental Futures is bringing together researchers to tackle global challenges like...
Rivers worldwide are running dry
Catherine Russell, Honorary Researcher in Sedimentology and the Anthropocene discusses why rivers worldwide are running dry and what you can...
Fast Fashion
Nik Hammer, Associate Professor of Work and Employment discusses his research in to ‘fast fashion’ and the impact on brands,...
How our future rests on COP26
We desperately need world leaders at COP-26 to take radical and urgent action to enable a survivable planet. The severity...
Air pollution in a changing climate
With air pollution being the single biggest environmental hazard across the world, Samuel Cai - Lecturer in Environmental Epidemiology explores...
What role for science and innovation in COP26 and Net Zero?
With world-leaders gathering for COP26, Professor Paul Monks, CSA BEIS and University of Leicester, explores the role that science and...
Tropical ocean climate swings sensed by corals
Developing reliable, long-term reconstructions of ocean temperature, rainfall, and pollution levels from coral skeletons