The planet is warming because there is more energy arriving from the sun than leaving to space, says Richard Allan.
climate change
Understanding types of compost and soil carbon quality – and why this matters for climate change mitigation
Carbon in organic matter (decaying plant and animal remains) in the soil is a globally-significant carbon store. The world’s soils hold three times more carbon than the world’s plants, amounting…Read More >
The effects of air pollution on pollinators
Declines in pollinator abundance and diversity over the last century are currently considered to have been the result of a range of interacting stressors, such as agricultural intensification and climate…Read More >
Drought recedes in Britain after a wet spring – but much of Europe is parched
Be careful what you wish for. Britain’s seesaw rainfall patterns that began last winter have continued, with an on-off pattern of dry and then wet months for many areas. In the south…Read More >
Win. Don’t Bin: WRAP’s Food Waste Action Week
If food waste were a country, estimates are that it would have the third highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after China and the US. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3…Read More >
Securing action for biodiversity at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – COP15
Philippa Oppenheimer is a first year PhD student on the Scenario NERC Doctoral Training Partnership based at the Institute of Zoology, ZSL, partnered with the University of Reading. Her research…Read More >
Changing the way transatlantic flights are routed to reduce carbon emissions
On International Civil Aviation Day it is only right that we consider how we can make commercial flights more sustainable. If the aviation industry was a country, its carbon dioxide…Read More >
Zero Budget Natural Farming: a low-cost farming system that could achieve similar yields to organic and conventional techniques
In response to rising challenges for farmers in India, the Government of Andhra Pradesh a state in southeast India, have been encouraging farmers to adopt Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)…Read More >
