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.
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Alumna Heather Needham (MSc BCM 2022) Wins King's College London Emerging Leader Award
Alumna Heather Needham (MSc BCM 2022), Biodiversity Manager at the University of Oxford and a 2022 graduate of the BCM Masters course, has been awarded the prestigious King’s College London Emerging Leader Award.

Grace de Souza Wins 2nd Place in Climate Change Research Group's Dissertation Award
Grace de Souza's dissertation 'Convective-Permitting Model Projects Greater Reduction in Updraft Cores Over the Congo Basin' has been awarded 2nd place in Climate Change Research Group's 2023 Dissertation Prize.

New report states 7–9 billion tonnes of CO2 must be sustainably removed per year to hit climate targets
The 2024 State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report co-led by researchers at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment in the School of Geography and the Environment, finds that around 7–9 billion tonnes of CO2 per year will need to be removed by mid-century from the atmosphere if the world is to meet the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target. The authors stress that reducing emissions is the primary way to achieve net-zero, but Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) has a critical role to play.

Not a Zero-Waste of time! Interview with Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright
What does the future of zero-waste living look like in urban China? This interview with Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright explains the many forms that everyday environmentalist activism can take, and also explores the role of the individual and the state in zero-waste living.

Oxford Geoscience Professor Myles Allen On Solving The Problem Of Climate Change
Myles Allen has been studying how human and natural influences contribute to climate change since the early 1990s, served on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its 3rd, 4th and 5th Assessments, and was a Coordinating Lead Author for its special report on 'the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,’ and has been dubbed by the BBC “the physicist behind net zero”.

Fun Kids Science Weekly podcast: Professor David Thomas on why geomorphology is the best kind of science
The Battle of the Sciences continues as Professor David Thomas from the School of Geography and the Environment talks to the Fun Kids Science Weekly podcast about why geomorphology is the best kind of science.

Dr Chloë Strevens and Dr Laurence Wainwright win Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards 2024
The Divisional Teaching Awards formally recognize the outstanding contribution to teaching and learning and the academic development of students shown by colleagues across the Social Sciences Division.

Navigating Polar Change: Climate-Smart Marine Spatial Planning for the Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, key to Earth's environmental system, is threatened by climate change. A new paper in Science by Dr Catarina Frazão Santos, Dr Lisa Wedding, and colleagues, details how climate-smart marine spatial planning can support Antarctic seascapes, with implications for the global ocean and human wellbeing.

Floods in south Brazil have displaced 600,000 – here’s why this region is likely to see ever more extreme rain in future
A mighty river is flowing out of the Amazon rainforest, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of. In the first kilometre above the forest canopy, a “flying river” is transporting moisture evaporated from Amazonian trees southwards along the Andes mountains towards Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil. Almost the entire state - an area larger than the UK - is currently affected by unprecedented floods. The flying river has acted like a firehose, fuelling five months of rainfall in just two weeks, further enhanced by a strong jetstream located in just the wrong position above the region. In an article for The Conversation, Dr Marcia Zilli, Dr Neil Hart, and colleague Dr Caio Coelho, explore why - based on future projections of climate change - this situation will likely get worse as the temperature rises.

Alfie Davis wins LGBTQ+ Undergraduate of the Year Award
Undergraduate Alfie Davis has been awarded the LGBTQ+ Undergraduate of the Year Award 2024.
