Skip to content
University of Reading logo
  • Home
  • All posts
    • Agriculture, Food & Health
    • Heritage & Creativity
    • Prosperity & Resilience
    • Environment
  • Events
    • Agriculture, Food & Health
    • Heritage & Creativity
    • Prosperity & Resilience
    • Environment
  • Awards & Prizes
  • Latest calls
  • Newsletter

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Filter:

Solutions to planetary health reside within us

Posted on
7 April 202223 February 2023

Today, 7 April, is World Health Day, and this year focuses on the theme of ‘our planet, our health’. And not a moment too soon: we face an escalating crisis…Read More >

Solutions to planetary health reside within us

Hydroelectric dams take toll on endangered big cats, study shows

Posted on
27 December 202120 December 2021

Big cats are among the most widespread top predators on Earth. Lions stalk zebra in the African savanna, tigers ambush antelope in the forests of Asia and jaguars hunt deer…Read More >

Biodiversity: world leaders are negotiating new targets to protect nature by 2030 – the story so far

Posted on
20 October 2021

“Putting biodiversity on a path to recovery is a defining challenge of this decade.” So begins the Kunming Declaration on biodiversity, adopted at the 15th UN biodiversity conference on October…Read More >

Discovering evolution’s rules for sculpting the natural world

Posted on
24 August 2020

Look at a horse’s front leg – it has just one toe. A horse stands, like a ballerina, ‘en pointe’, but for its entire life, not just during moments of…Read More >

Climate crisis: we are not individuals fighting a faceless system – we are the system that needs to change

Posted on
23 January 202014 March 2023

When we stop seeing ourselves as powerless individuals and consider ourselves part of a collective, we can tackle the climate crisis, says Professor Tom Oliver in a recent post for…Read More >

Climate crisis: we are not individuals fighting a faceless system – we are the system that needs to change

Think you’re an individual? Here are seven reasons why you’re not

Posted on
22 January 202028 January 2020

Reading ecologist Professor Tom Oliver has written a new book, The Self Delusion, which explores how people, animals, plants and the planet we live on are all intimately connected –…Read More >

To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II

Posted on
22 October 2019

Just as in wartime, our prosperity, wellbeing and the future of our children are under severe threat from the climate crisis. What is needed is a vast mobilisation of scientific…Read More >

‘Too many elephants’ in Africa? Here’s how peaceful coexistence with human communities can help

Posted on
7 March 201915 November 2021

The human population in Africa is booming, squeezing elephants into ever smaller and more isolated pockets of land. In a new post for The Conversation, conservation biologist Vicky Boult explains…Read More >

‘Too many elephants’ in Africa? Here’s how peaceful coexistence with human communities can help

Tweets by UniRdg_Research

© Copyright University of Reading
Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter

University of Reading cookie policy

We use cookies on reading.ac.uk to improve your experience. You can find out more about our cookie policy.
By continuing to use our site you accept these terms, and are happy for us to use cookies to improve your browsing experience.

Continue using this website