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Environment - Innovation - 29.10.2024
Analysis: Plans to cool the Earth by blocking sunlight are gaining momentum but critical voices risk
Analysis: Plans to cool the Earth by blocking sunlight are gaining momentum but critical voices risk

Economics - Environment - 23.10.2024
Spotlight on... Aparna Murthy
Spotlight on... Aparna Murthy

Environment - Economics - 23.10.2024
Report calls for international action to tackle climate change

Astronomy / Space - Environment - 21.10.2024
Space probe proposal and climate research funding: News from Imperial
Space probe proposal and climate research funding: News from Imperial

Environment - Pedagogy - 21.10.2024
#Assessmentforgood: Launching an innovative assessment initiative in SEED

Environment - Innovation - 17.10.2024
Electric wallpaper among projects powering a net zero future in Scotland
Electric wallpaper is being piloted in 12 tenement properties in Glasgow to assess its effectiveness as a clean heat source, as part of a project led by the University of Glasgow, University of Strath

Environment - Transport - 16.10.2024
In despair about Earth’s future? Look for green shoots
As species go extinct and a habitable climate teeters, it's understandable to feel despair. Some of the world's top climate scientists have expressed their mounting hopelessness at the prospect of reaching 3°C by 2100.

Environment - 16.10.2024
New Report Highlights Urgent Need for Sustainable Practices in European Film and TV Industry
A new report, Greening European Film Policy: Towards a Sustainable European Film and Television Industry, has been released, emphasising the critical role of collaboration between academics, industry

Health - Environment - 15.10.2024
Bupa launches ’Transforming healthcare for a greener tomorrow’ research report and scorecard

Environment - 14.10.2024
University wins global climate award in recognition of its commitment to sustainability

Health - Environment - 14.10.2024
Network to equip medical students to address the health impacts of climate change

Agronomy / Food Science - Environment - 11.10.2024
Scientists challenge ’misleading’ Dublin Declaration defending meat consumption

Environment - 11.10.2024
China's child policies will increase its future carbon emissions
China’s child policies will increase its future carbon emissions
Relaxing its restrictions on family size would make it more difficult for China to achieve its goal to be carbon neutral by 2060, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The paper, published in Nature Climate Change , is the first research to analyse the impact of a country's population policies on its future carbon emissions.

Environment - 11.10.2024
Growing a City of Trees, in The University of Manchester's 200th year
Growing a City of Trees, in The University of Manchester’s 200th year

Environment - Innovation - 09.10.2024
Reversing global warming as part of a climate overshoot likely to be difficult
Temporarily exceeding global temperature rise of 1.5°C likely to come with long-term consequences, according to a new study.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 09.10.2024
Madagascar’s mining rush has caused no more deforestation than farming
If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that to cause lots of deforestation and harm local wildlife. Mining has a very bad reputation. It is often assumed to be one of the worse land uses - destroying and polluting the environment and creating barren, moon-like landscapes.

Environment - Social Sciences - 09.10.2024
Citizen scientists will be needed to meet global water quality goals
Citizen scientists will be needed to meet global water quality goals
Sustainable development goals for water quality will not be met without the involvement of citizen scientists, argue an international team led by a UCL researcher, in a new policy brief. The policy brief and attached technical brief are published by Earthwatch Europe on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-coordinated World Water Quality Alliance that has supported citizen science projects in Kenya, Tanzania and Sierra Leone.

Social Sciences - Environment - 08.10.2024
New report spotlights urgent issues faced by mobile indigenous populations
Researchers from the University of Oxford have collaborated with the United Nations (UN) on a new report that focuses on the legal recognition,Öland rights and mobility (including transboundary movement) of Mobile Indigenous Peoples.

Environment - Innovation - 07.10.2024
UK's leading experts call for urgent action to decarbonise by 2050
UK’s leading experts call for urgent action to decarbonise by 2050

Life Sciences - Environment - 07.10.2024
Imperial-led project to develop global standards for biofoundry development
Imperial-led project to develop global standards for biofoundry development

Environment - Innovation - 07.10.2024
New funding for green economy research at University of Glasgow

Environment - 07.10.2024
School students to engineer solutions to marine plastic pollution

Environment - Innovation - 07.10.2024
The UK's £22 billion bet on carbon capture will lock in fossil fuels for decades
The UK’s £22 billion bet on carbon capture will lock in fossil fuels for decades

Environment - Social Sciences - 04.10.2024
Maasai Mara's Indigenous forest is disappearing, with drastic consequences
Maasai Mara’s Indigenous forest is disappearing, with drastic consequences

Environment - Economics - 04.10.2024
Circular economy spins up to save forest experiment
The future of the world's largest forest CO2 enrichment experiment has been secured thanks to a partnership between the University and Midlands firm, RenEco Ltd The experiment, based in rural Stafford

Environment - Life Sciences - 03.10.2024
True global impact of human-driven bird extinctions far greater than expected
True global impact of human-driven bird extinctions far greater than expected
The ongoing loss of bird species is likely to have severe knock-on effects as their unique roles in ecosystems are not fulfilled, shows a new study.

Environment - History / Archeology - 03.10.2024
Researchers record wettest month in 250 years
Oxford researchers have recorded the wettest month in Oxford in 250 years at the Radcliffe Meteorological Station.

Environment - Event - 03.10.2024
Researchers awarded grant to help improve the resilience of roads in the Indian Himalayas affected by devastating monsoon rainfall

Environment - History / Archeology - 01.10.2024
Protecting our built heritage and collections
Protecting our built heritage and collections

Astronomy / Space - Environment - 27.09.2024
Milestone achieved for planet hunting mission
Milestone achieved for planet hunting mission
The European Space Agency's Plato satellite, which will search for Earth-like planets orbiting the habitable zone of stars, is a step closer to launch after a UCL-led team delivered key electronics for the mission.

Materials Science - Environment - 26.09.2024
Developing sustainable coatings
Developing sustainable coatings
Driving the development of sustainable coatings, by understanding the fundamentals of how paint works Paints are a crucial material, integral to prolonging the lifespan of products from cars to wind turbines.

Environment - Innovation - 26.09.2024
The University of Manchester's M4 wave energy converter successfully launched in Australia
The University of Manchester’s M4 wave energy converter successfully launched in Australia
The M4 wave energy converter, developed by Professor Peter Stansby at The University of Manchester, has been successfully launched in Albany, Australia.

Environment - 25.09.2024
'Extinct' snails found breeding in French Polynesia
’Extinct’ snails found breeding in French Polynesia
A species of tropical tree snail is no longer extinct in the wild following a successful reintroduction project.

Environment - 24.09.2024
Botanic Garden Team strike Gold

Environment - Economics - 24.09.2024
Environmental sustainability in rugby
Academics at Cardiff University have kicked off new research about sustainability in sport by seeking the views of Dragons RFC supporters.

Environment - 24.09.2024
Manifesto outlines plankton's role in tackling triple planetary crisis
Manifesto outlines plankton’s role in tackling triple planetary crisis

Chemistry - Environment - 23.09.2024
Brewing a sustainable future: unlocking the potential of spent grains
Brewing a sustainable future: unlocking the potential of spent grains
In an era of increasing environmental awareness, the reliance on petroleum-based products extends far beyond fuel, permeating our daily lives in plastics, medicines, and food products.

Environment - 23.09.2024
Energy inefficiency and inability to downsize pose even bigger threat to low-income pensioners than loss of Winter Fuel Payments
Energy inefficiency and inability to downsize pose even bigger threat to low-income pensioners than loss of Winter Fuel Payments
Energy inefficiency and inability to downsize pose even bigger threat to low-income pensioners than loss of Winter Fuel Payments, study suggests The UK Government's policy to scrap Winter Fuel Payments could disproportionately affect low-income pensioners in England, new analysis suggests.

Environment - Computer Science - 23.09.2024
School of Computing Science aims to reduce environmental impact of digital tech

Environment - 19.09.2024
UCL East bags hat-trick of 'Excellent' certifications for sustainable construction
UCL East bags hat-trick of ’Excellent’ certifications for sustainable construction

Environment - 19.09.2024
UCL East bags hattrick of 'Excellent' certifications for sustainable construction
UCL East bags hattrick of ’Excellent’ certifications for sustainable construction

Environment - 19.09.2024
Chinese journalists draw on UCL's urban renewal expertise during Bloomsbury visit
Chinese journalists draw on UCL’s urban renewal expertise during Bloomsbury visit

Innovation - Environment - 18.09.2024
Watercycle Technologies Selected to Demonstrate Cutting-Edge Lithium Recovery Technology in Chile
Watercycle Technologies Selected to Demonstrate Cutting-Edge Lithium Recovery Technology in Chile

Environment - 18.09.2024
Exploring climate change through mobile games
Exploring climate change through mobile games
To raise awareness about climate change, a UCL researcher teamed up with one of the most popular mobile games, updating it to show science-based predictions of what will happen to Earth after a century of global warming.

Career - Environment - 18.09.2024
Scientist awarded Royal Society Career Development Fellowship for pioneering research
Scientist awarded Royal Society Career Development Fellowship for pioneering research

Environment - Pedagogy - 18.09.2024
Flying the flag for sustainable development
Flying the flag for sustainable development

Environment - Law - 17.09.2024
University of Oxford and United Nations Human Rights to host landmark global climate summit

Life Sciences - Environment - 16.09.2024
Large-scale experiment brings real world into lab to design better spaces
Large-scale experiment brings real world into lab to design better spaces
The real world was brought into the laboratory on a scale never seen before, for an experiment where over 100 people were tracked walking through a custom-built network of moveable 'walls', in a UCL-led research project investigating how people move through spaces. The project attracted participation from professionals in architecture, hospitals, transport, AI, property, video game design, dance, and museums.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.09.2024
The skyscraper-sized tsunami that vibrated through the entire planet and no one saw
The skyscraper-sized tsunami that vibrated through the entire planet and no one saw

Environment - 12.09.2024
New UCL centre to address electricity market design for net zero