Expert Comment: Are extreme heatwaves the UK’s ‘new normal’?
Professor Myles Allen, Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at the University of Oxford, explains how researchers at Oxford are combinin…
Category: Climate in Society
Drought is reshaping the spread of infectious diseases
In a review paper published Aug. 12 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, CU Boulder ecologist Pieter Johnson and his collaborator Tara Stewart Merril…
Drained by humans, rewetted by beavers – opposing forces shape boreal wetlands
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland explore how beavers can contribute to wetland restoration. Beavers have th…
Butterflies worldwide are on the move as the climate warms
Monash‑led research has revealed that one in ten butterfly species globally has shifted its distribution range, with climate change and extreme weathe…
Urban greenery’s potential as a climate solution is underused – new handbook offers solutions
A new Climate-Smart Urban Greenery Handbook brings together research-based, easily applicable ways to strengthen the role of urban greenery for the be…
Migration around the globe: How butterflies are reacting to climate change
Around the world, butterflies’ distribution ranges are changing, often in connection with climate change and extreme weather. The results of an intern…
New study reveals how phosphorus changes the way eucalypt forests respond to rising CO₂
Western Sydney University researchers have led an international team in the first ecosystem-scale study to investigate how phosphorus availability aff…
Can law protect the planet?
Across The Dickson Poon School of Law at KCL, students and researchers think differently about how law can help to solve global problems, and some of …