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What Danish climate migration drama, Families Like Ours, gets wrong about rising sea levels

In an article for The Conversation, Florian Steig, DPhil candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment, unpacks what Danish climate migration drama, Families Like Ours, gets wrong about rising sea levels.

27 Jun 2025

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.

24 Jun 2025

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.

18 Jun 2025

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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