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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).

20 May 2025

Lichens at Blenheim Palace. Ian Wallman , CC BY-SA

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.

16 May 2025

GRIT remaps the world’s rivers, branching into the unknown to aid global flood modelling

A team, led by Professor Louise Slater in the School of Geography and the Environment, has created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. The new study, published in Water Resources Research, introduces GRIT—a mapping system that finally shows how rivers really flow, branch, and connect landscapes.

15 May 2025

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Clever vlogs open Oxford to minorities

Second year geography undergraduate Tony Farag is contributing author in The Sunday Times’ piece on how student vloggers are playing an important role in Oxbridge access campaigns. He pitched, researched and worked on the article, which explores the positive impact that youtubers are having on diversity at Oxbridge, whilst working on the news desk for two weeks over the Christmas break.

17 Jan 2020

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The UN climate talks ended in deadlock. Is this really the best the world can manage?

Opinion piece in the Guardian on the disappointing outcome of COP25 from journalist Aruna Chandrasekhar, currently on the MSc in Environmental Change Management. "But dysfunctional as they are, COPs are perhaps the only international legal forum that are partly open to observers to witness geopolitics and global call-out culture first-hand. And it's those witnesses - all of us - who must apply the pressure," writes Aruna.

17 Jan 2020

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