As the second of four all-staff talks we held in the run-up to the COP26 Summit in November 2021, this blog includes a presentation by Professor Amanda Callaghan (Evolutionary Biology…Read More >
Environment
Working together to change climate change
In the run-up to the COP26 Summit in November 2021, we held four all-staff talks to highlight our world-leading climate and environmental research. Each session included a research presentation and…Read More >
If we don’t learn from past climate disasters, they will claim more lives in the future
A central focus of discussions at the ongoing UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow is how to adapt to a warming world, including how to prevent climate hazards from becoming…Read More >
COP26: what would the world be like at 3°C of warming and how would it be different from 1.5°C?
In the Paris Agreement, countries committed to seek to limit the increase in temperature to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. However, even if countries fulfilled their current pledges to reduce emissions,…Read More >
Marlene Kretschmer honoured by EuroGeosciences Union
Marlene Kretschmer (Meteorology) has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Outstanding Early Career Scientist award for Climate (Past, Present and Future) by the European Geophysical Union for her work on understanding…Read More >
Research into action: learning from REF2021
Our annual Research Engagement and Impact Awards were postponed this year because lockdown disrupted so much activity. Instead, we held an event to reflect both on our submission to REF2021,…Read More >
Climate change adaptation in East Africa: reflections on systemic change
In the run-up to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021, UKRI is holding a series of online events to showcase…Read More >
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest will change more in the next 50 years than at any time since the last ice age
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly one in every 50 species of plant and vertebrate land animal lives there and nowhere else….Read More >
Extreme heat warning: what first-ever Met Office alert means
Summer 2021 will mark a turning point in how heat is seen by the public and communicated by experts. For the first time in its 167-year history, the UK’s Met…Read More >
Report from Europe’s flood zone: researcher calls out early warning system gridlock amid shocking loss of life
It was close to midnight when I received a phone call from my sister telling me that our parent’s house was under water. Neither she nor they really knew what…Read More >