Following devastating floods in 2020, five successive failed rainy seasons caused drought which exposed millions of people to acute food shortages in East Africa. The field project, MASIKA, is the first of its kind and aims to understand the atmospheric processes operating at the start the rainy season.
The School of Geography and the Environment is very saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Karen Bakker in August. Karen was a Rhodes Scholar at SoGE, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in 1999, before she moved to the University of British Columbia.
"It has been almost 12 years since I left my city. And I have never been able to return. Homs, the place I was born and grew up, has been destroyed and I, like many others, have been left in exile: left to remember how beautiful it once was. What can a person do when their home - that place within them that carries so much meaning - has effectively been murdered?" Dr Ammar Azzouz, Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment, writes for The Conversation.
Jen O'Neill (Keble, 1993), Editor of Women's Football Magazine She Kicks gives tips for a career in sports journalism in an article on the Oxford Alumni website.
Dr Ammar Azzouz, a British-Syrian architect and British Academy Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Environment, is author of the new book 'Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria'.
Josh Ettinger, a doctoral researcher in SoGE, is exploring how extreme weather events may affect the way the public feels, thinks and acts on climate change. In an article in The Conversation he explores how to talk about recent extreme weather events and climate change with people and how to shift their existing concerns about climate change into action.
Two projects from SoGE - 'How the humble bean can help the world' from ECI's future of food platform TABLE, and 'How to keep cool (without heating the planet)' led by Dr Radhika Khosla in the SSEE - are among four projects turned into engaging short films in collaboration with BBC Ideas.
An innovative study led by Dr Katrin Wilhelm, Researcher and Departmental Lecturer at the School of Geography and the Environment, uses Oxford’s historic structures as geochemical "clocks" to reveal past pollution trends.
Join us for a tour of the Museum of Climate Hope, a unique museum trail and interactive experience across all six of Oxford's Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) that cultivates climate hope by reframing the stories of real artefacts around the themes of resilience, innovation and transformation.
More than $122 billion of economic activity - $81 billion in international trade - is at risk from the impact of extreme climate events, according to new research from Oxford's Environmental Change Institute.
The UK, Switzerland and Norway top the list of countries heading for dramatic increases in uncomfortably hot days - if temperatures break the international 1.5ºC target, according to new research from Oxford. But, the researchers maintain, such countries are 'dangerously unprepared'.
