The School of Geography and the Environment's Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr Avidesh Seenath (ECI), Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito have won Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards.
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SoGE MSc student Tabina Manzoor gives opening address at Right Here, Right Now climate summit
Tabina Manzoor, a Kashmiri student, researcher, and environmentalist currently pursuing an MSc in Water Science, Policy, and Management at SoGE, served as a student co-moderator at Oxford’s recently concluded Right Here Right Now Global Climate Summit, where she also gave an opening address at the Sheldonian Theatre.
Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr Avidesh Seenath, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito win Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards 2025
The School of Geography and the Environment's Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr Avidesh Seenath (ECI), Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito have won Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards.
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Coal power plants were paid to close. Is it time to do the same for slaughterhouses?
The food industry will go to great lengths (and spend a fortune) to lobby policymakers, confuse the public and politicise scientific findings. When scientific evidence indicates the need to phase down environmentally harmful or unhealthy products, the responsible industry pushes back. In an article for The Conversation, Stephanie Walton, DPhil candidate in the School, explores how stranded assets may be motivating this resistance and examines the possible solutions.
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SoGE MSc student Tabina Manzoor gives opening address at Right Here, Right Now climate summit
Tabina Manzoor, a Kashmiri student, researcher, and environmentalist currently pursuing an MSc in Water Science, Policy, and Management at SoGE, served as a student co-moderator at Oxford’s recently concluded Right Here Right Now Global Climate Summit, where she also gave an opening address at the Sheldonian Theatre.
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Leading UK scientists urge Prime Minister to place nature at the centre of economic and climate policy
A group of over 35 senior UK academics, coordinated by NbSI Director, Nathalie Seddon - drawn from ecology, economics, public health and the social sciences and including several from the School of Geography and the Environment - have delivered an open letter to the Prime Minister setting out the latest peer-reviewed evidence on why protecting and restoring nature is essential for UK prosperity, security and global leadership as the world heads towards COP 30 in November.
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New Oxford Principles to guide responsible carbon trading under the Paris Agreement
A University of Oxford-led team of researchers have published a set of principles which could help countries and corporates engage with Article 6 in a way that results in genuine climate action. (Photo credit: Adrien Olichon, Axel Josefsson, Eyoel Kahssay, Micha Sager, Noah Pienaar, Phlair, all from unsplash)
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Earth's growing thirst is making droughts worse, even where it rains
The atmosphere’s growing thirst for water is making droughts more severe, even in places where rainfall has stayed the same. New research by Dr Solomon H. Gebrechorkos and Prof Simon Dadson et al in SoGE, published in Nature, finds that this “thirst” has made droughts 40% more severe across the globe.
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Exploring the Belmont Estate: Rewilding in practice
Rewilding ventures like the restoration project at the Belmont Estate near Bristol, are becoming vital testbeds for how we restore biodiversity, adapt to climate change, and rethink our relationship with the land. Staff and students from the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery (LCNR) and SoGE's Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation research cluster explore Watercress Farm, part of the 3,500-acre Belmont Estate, just west of Bristol.
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Exhibit urges dialogue on water inequality
Coverage in the Manila Standard of the "Fair Water?" exhibit on water access and inequality which opened this week at the Ayala Museum in Makati. The exhibit developed by the REACH programme aims to raise awareness and start conversations about one of today’s most urgent global concerns: fair and equal access to clean water.
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Professor Jim Hall elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Professor Jim Hall, Director of the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS) and Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
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How lichens are bringing stone to life and reconnecting us with the natural world
Dr Nicholas Carter explores how lichens are bringing stone to life and reconnecting us with the natural world in an article for The Conversation. His article was a runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers, run in partnership with Faber and Curtis Brown.
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