Researchers led by SoGE’s Dr Sarah Wilson Kemsley have demonstrated an improved approach to predicting heat-related mortality in Europe, using machine learning.
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How can we better predict heat-related deaths where extreme heat is unprecedented?
Researchers led by SoGE’s Dr Sarah Wilson Kemsley have demonstrated an improved approach to predicting heat-related mortality in Europe, using machine learning.
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Expert Comment: Heatwaves are social disasters in England
Shiv Yucel, a DPhil candidate in the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford, explains why heatwaves hit some groups far harder than others, and what his research on everyday travel behaviour reveals about the inequalities that shape who is most at risk.
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Satellites are transforming biodiversity monitoring for global nature targets, but major gaps remain
A new review led by Dr Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez at the Environmental Change Institute shows how rapidly advancing satellite technology is reshaping the way biodiversity and ecosystem health can be monitored at global scales - while also highlighting important limitations that mean field data remain essential.
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Dr Ariell Ahearn and Dr Natasha Wallum win Teaching Excellence Awards
The University of Oxford Social Sciences Division's annual Teaching Excellence Awards recognise outstanding contributions to teaching and learning and the academic development of students.
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SoGE researchers part of major new healthy diets research programme at major new research and engagement programme at the University of Oxford
The Chellaram Programme for Healthy and Sustainable Diets will bring together researchers across the University of Oxford, including Professor Jamie Lorimer and the Smith School's Dr Michael Clark.
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Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate - Ars Technica
Research co-authored by Professor Bob Hilton suggesting sedimentary rock weathering can be a positive carbon cycle feedback is featured in Ars Technica.
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How we adapt to heatwaves is shaped by our age, health, employment, housing, and race.
New research by SoGE's Shiv G.Yücel reveals variation in how people are able to adapt their travel behaviour to heatwaves in England.
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England’s sewage spills: why citizen scientists want to test for pollution themselves
Thousands of volunteers across England now regularly take out their own testing kits to study the levels of pollution in rivers and the sea. In an article for The Conversation, Hope Steadman, DPhil candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment, explores why citizen water testing has become one of the most visible responses to England’s pollution scandals. (Image (c) Hope Steadman).
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Dr Steve Smith awarded MBE in King's Birthday Honours
Dr Steve Smith, Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, has been appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Climate Science.
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Revealed: The cities where people are most at risk from extreme heat as El Nino arrives – including several major tourist destinations - Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam
Research on heatwave risks in 220 major cities, led by SoGE DPhil Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam, has analysed 205 global cities to determine where people are most at risk from rising global temperatures, with findings featured in media outlets globally.
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