Category Archives: Environment

We passed 1.5°C of human-caused warming this year (just not as the Paris agreement measures it) Andrew Jarvis, Lancaster University and Piers Forster, University of Leeds Human-caused global warming has just nudged past 1.5°C, according to a new method we have … Continue reading →

A beginner’s guide to greenwash and four ways to avoid falling for it nito/Shutterstock, CC BY-NC-ND Lala Rukh, University of Galway Growing up in a Pakistani village in the 2000s, sustainability was embedded throughout my daily life. My family has always … Continue reading →

UK public is becoming more ‘carbon capable’ – here’s what that means Halfpoint/Shutterstock Sam Hampton, University of Oxford and Lorraine Whitmarsh, University of Bath As climate change intensifies, rising public awareness and incremental behavioural changes will hopefully evolve into transformative action. … Continue reading →

Sara Saadouni, Nottingham Trent University As the UK braces for yet another record-breaking heatwave, we are starkly reminded of the need for climate-resilient architecture in a warming world. In the last few decades, architects have been addressing this by considering … Continue reading →

As renewable energy demand rises, mining for critical minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point Mining for gold in Suriname. Yolanda Ariadne Collins, CC BY-NC-ND Yolanda Ariadne Collins, University of St Andrews Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for … Continue reading →

The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C Melting Antarctic glacier. Shutterstock/Bernhard Staehli James Dyke, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, University of East Anglia, and Wolfgang Knorr, Lund … Continue reading →

New solar farms can benefit nature – here’s how Fabio Carvalho, Lancaster University and Alona Armstrong, Lancaster University If you were told solar farms could take up to 0.3% of the total land area in the UK by 2035, would you … Continue reading →

One garden, one year and one woman’s mission to make space for urban wildlife Duqie/Shutterstock Elizabeth Nicholls, University of Sussex UK gardens cover a total area of 4,000 square kilometres – that’s a quarter of the size of Wales – and … Continue reading →