How have plants adapted over centuries or millennia to survive and recover from human interference? David Moreno-Mateos and his team are analysing tree species in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest to find out, and to help inform and improve future restoration practice.
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Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature
In a thought-provoking feature for The Conversation, Dr Rich Grenyer, Associate Professor in Biodiversity and Biogeography, examines the ethical and ecological concerns surrounding de-extinction, arguing that the allure of reviving species like dire wolves risks diverting attention from the ongoing human-driven destruction of the natural world.
How likely would Britain's 40°C heatwave have been without climate change?
Ben Clarke, a DPhil candidate in the School, explores how likely the recent heatwave would have been without climate change in an article in The Conversation.
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More investment in community-scale food supply chains could increase food system resilience
A new policy brief from a major research programme whose coordination team is based in the ECI has highlighted the role of small, local food enterprises in feeding communities in Covid-19, and recommends greater investment to allow these types of food providers to contribute to a more resilience UK food system.
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Current policies cannot stabilise the Colorado River in face of ongoing megadrought
An ongoing megadrought, impacts of climate change and systematic overuse have created a crisis for the Colorado River, an essential water source for 40 million inhabitants of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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SoGE winners at the Vice Chancellor's Environmental Sustainability Awards 2022
Congratulations to our Facilities Manager, Alex Black, for winning a Special Environmental Sustainability Staff Award, and to our graduate students Josh Ettinger, Alexis McGivern and Marcus Spiegel for coming runner-up in the Environmental Sustainability Students Awards.
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Scholarships that are helping to change the world
MSc alumnus Allwin Jesudasan, shares his story of educating communities on snake bites, the joy of spotting tigers in the wild and how Oxford changed his ambitions.
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The value of water
In a recent interview with T La Revue the French business newspaper La Tribune's magazine, Kevin Grecksch, Departmental Lecturer and Course Director for the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management, stressed the notion that people in developed countries have lost touch with water.
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SoGE holds inaugural Engagement and Impact Award Ceremony
SoGE's Inaugural Engagement and Impact Award Ceremony was held on 30th June 2022 in the new East Wing of the Dyson Perrins Building. Head of School, Professor Gillian Rose announced the winners and highly commended entries in two categories: Main Award and Early Career Researcher.
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How to mobilise $100 trillion wisely: Oxford course on sustainable finance
Well over $100 trillion dollars needs to be invested internationally to tackle climate change and this requires the global financial system to be aligned with environmental sustainability. Dr Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance, writes about the establishment of the P3S Academy.
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Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems
Without rapid changes to agriculture and food systems, the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change will not be met says a new study out today in the journal Science.
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Professor Linda McDowell awarded honorary DSc
Congratulations to Professor Linda McDowell, Emerita Professor of SoGE, who has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of St Andrews.
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