The Southern Ocean, key to Earth's environmental system, is threatened by climate change. A new paper in Science by Dr Catarina Frazão Santos, Dr Lisa Wedding, and colleagues, details how climate-smart marine spatial planning can support Antarctic seascapes, with implications for the global ocean and human wellbeing.
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Reducing the carbon footprint of academic travel post COVID-19
Prior to the global pandemic, researchers identified an uncomfortable truth: the very meetings and events meant to support the fight against climate change were themselves causing vast greenhouse gas emissions through international air travel. Building on learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of Oxford researchers have identified new measures, published this week in the journal Nature, that may reduce the carbon footprint of conference travel by up to 90%.
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Dr Lorraine Wild wins Divisional Teaching Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement
The School of Geography and the Environment's Academic Administrator, Dr Lorraine Wild, has won a Divisional Teaching Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement.
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DPhil student Sabrina Li accepted into the Turing Enrichment Scheme at the Alan Turing Institute
DPhil student Sabrina Li has been accepted into the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme at the Alan Turing Institute.
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Why coronavirus death rates won't fall as quickly as they rose
Danny Dorling uses the latest data on coronavirus deaths in England and Wales to look at the speed at which the death rate is falling compared to how quickly it rose in his latest article for The Conversation.
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Oxford sees sunniest month in the world's longest continuous sunshine record
Oxford University's Radcliffe Meteorological Station has measured a new record for sunshine hours. Doctoral student Thomas Caton Harrison has collected the final readings for May's sunshine, taking the total for the month of May to 331.7 hours.
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Social Sciences Division awards over £210,000 to projects addressing social, economic, cultural, and environmental impacts of COVID-19
The Division's Urgent Response Fund has awarded over £210,000 to 18 projects across the University, including projects led by Prof Cameron Hepburn and Dr Phil Grünewald, to support immediate impact and engagement work relating to the economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions of the global COVID-19 crisis.
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FT: Governments should launch new policies to promote a green economic recovery
The FT view calls for a green economic recovery from COVID19, drawing on recent Smith School research from Cameron Hepburn, Brian O'Callaghan and colleagues.
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Electric bikes could help people return to work
The BBC covers a new report from CREDS UK, led by Nick Eyre, exploring how electric bikes can help people get to work safely, and in an environmentally and economically sustainable way, during coronavirus.
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Halve the farmland, save nature, feed the world
Scientists have demonstrated that humans could restore roughly half the planet as a natural home for all wildlife, while at the same time feeding a growing population and limiting climate change. The new Nature Sustainability paper is from Michael Obersteiner, incoming director at the ECI.
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Destination: green airline bailouts
The impacts of COVID-19 on aviation are only just beginning to be felt. In this article for The Conversation, Professor Cameron Hepburn and Brian Callaghan look at how governments could use bailouts to encourage innovation and get something for all of us, and the climate, in return.
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