As a haze from the Sahara envelops Athens, Professor David Thomas, speaks to The Telegraph to explain why dust storms are becoming a worrying global trend.
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Nifty at Fifty: How Oxford's Transport Studies Unit has been informing our transport systems over the last 50 years
What does an energy efficient transport system look like? Will electric vehicles stop climate change? What transport injustices exist in our societies? These are just a few of the questions currently being addressed by the Transport Studies Unit (TSU), a research institute that puts just and human-centered mobility futures at the heart of its research. Founded in 1973 through an endowment of the then Chartered Institute of Transport, the TSU is now part of SoGE and this year celebrates 50 years of research excellence.
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Boosting UK-grown beans could be the key to a healthier economy
The rise in demand for plant-based foods and meat substitutes could unlock opportunities for UK food businesses, according to a new report from the University of Oxford.
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Was India's hot summer of 2023 the first of many to come?
The number of days with temperatures exceeding 30° has increased in India. The Hindu explores the reasons citing evidence-based research involving Oxford's Associate Professor in Physical Geography, Louise Slater and led by Dr Jiabo Yin, Wuhan University (China).
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Weakened by a decade of austerity: why the UK's covid-19 inquiry is right to look at policies since 2010
New opinion piece involving doctoral researcher Lucinda Hiam and Professor of Geography Danny Dorling explains how the cumulative consequences of austerity policies initiated by the 2010 Coalition Government created conditions that allowed COVID-19 to do more damage in the UK than in many of its neighbours. Read in full via The BMJ.
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Letters of Hope: Natalie Chung (MPhil 2021) joins Dr Sylvia Earle in Imagining an Icier, Cleaner Climate
Alumna Natalie Chung (MPhil 2021), founder of V'air Hong Kong, voyaged alongside accomplished deep ocean activist Dr Sylvia Earle to advocate for policies to protect nature's most important carbon sink - the Ocean.
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Jamie Lorimer appointed Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Humans and the Microbiome Programme
How do microbiomes impact human health and development, and how is this affected by individual and societal behaviour? Professor Jamie Lorimer joins as Fellow of the CIFAR's Humans and the Microbiome Programme, an interdisciplinary research project that unites social and natural scientists, as they investigate.
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Graduate scholarship for lower caste Indian students launched
The Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD) at Somerville College is launching a new scholarship for Indian students from lower caste backgrounds and/or first-generation students. The School of Geography and the Environment looks forward to welcoming Oxford's inaugural Phule scholar Niharika Singh on the MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance in October.
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From Irish farm to Oxford University: An ecologist's journey
Dr Chloë Strevens is interviewed by student Raphaella Mascia on her journey from growing up on her family's farm in Ireland to becoming an ecologist and Course Director of Oxford University's Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management master's programme.
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New research finds slow forest recovery in the Andes — and ways to improve
New research led by SoGE researchers could help governments better prioritize restoration and conservation interventions across the tropical Andes. The study evaluated how mountain forests in the region recovered over a 15-year period, identifying four possible recovery trajectories, ranging from natural to arrested.
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'Herders under pressure' podcast episode live
Polar Pod is a new podcast that explores the regions at the poles of our planet and how they matter to all of us. Created by researchers from the School of Geography and the Environment, the podcast is a product of the Oxford University Polar Forum, and draws together expert voices to answer big questions that polar research is grappling with today.
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