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Congratulations to recent graduate Jessica Ebner-Statt (2020, Geography), who has won the 2023 RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.

Dr Mike Clark, Director of the Food Programme at the Oxford Smith School, discusses the environmental impacts of eating meat, the key research questions we still need to answer, and what individuals can do today.

The number of people being signed off sick from work has tripled in the past decade. But will the government do anything about it? Lucinda Hiam, Current DPhil student in SoGE, and Michael Marmot, Director of UCL Institute of Health Equity, explore the issue in Prospect.

Many people across the UK have been affected by the current floods, and are very familiar with the flood warning system accessible to the public. But how exactly does this system work? What information is taken into account? Marnie Chesterton speaks to Dr Linda Speight on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science about flood forecasting, and the delicate balance of when to send out flood alerts and warnings.

Louise Slater, Professor of Hydroclimatology at Oxford University, and colleagues explain why extreme UK flood levels are happening much more often than they used to.

Shocks to the global economy related to biodiversity loss and ecosystem damage could cost upwards of $5 trillion.  Human-driven pollution, deforestation, land-use change and overextraction, are fundamentally eroding the natural capital upon which our societies and economies are built – including our water, clean air, fertile soils and pollinators – and act as ‘risk amplifiers’ on the impacts of climate change. 

Dr Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, explores how to make COP28's pledge to cut emissions from cooling happen, in an article for The Conversation.

After forty years at the coalface of the energy industry and 16 years leading the Energy Research programme and teaching students at the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford, Professor Nick Eyre is stepping aside. For an accidental academic who ‘scraped into a place at Oxford’ as an undergrad, he’s carved out quite a career and during that time witnessed some impressive advances in energy sustainability. 
Nick explains why he has great hopes for the future and the world his grandchildren will grow up in.