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Villarica (also known as Rucapillán) volcano, located in southern Chile.

Conserving overlooked and threatened regions

Published
Thursday 7th April, 2022
Categories
Environment
Global
Research

New research shows that private protected areas help conserve underrepresented biomes and highly threatened regions.

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Halving emissions by 2030 can keep 1.5°C within reach

Published
Monday 4th April, 2022
Categories
Science
Environment
Research

Without significant increases in the speed and ambition of climate action, limiting global warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach, according to a major international report published today.

Ice wedges in a field, in a polygonal pattern known as ice wedge polygons.

Permafrost peatlands approaching tipping point

Published
Monday 14th March, 2022
Categories
Environment
Global
Research

Researchers warn that permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are much closer to a climatic tipping point than previous believed.  

Bubbles rising up to the surface of the ocean

“Seafloor fertiliser factory” helped breathe life into Earth

Published
Thursday 10th March, 2022
Categories
Environment
Science
Research

Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertiliser factory on the Earth’s seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago.

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Changing the story

Published
Tuesday 8th March, 2022
Categories
Alumni

PR and Marketing Communications expert Annalise Coady has launched and transformed brands all around the world.

Flood Victims on boats, being rescued.

Climate change 'a mounting threat to our wellbeing'

Published
Monday 28th February, 2022
Categories
Science
Environment
Research

Despite efforts to reduce the risks, changes in the Earth’s climate caused by human activity are affecting the lives of billions of people, according to a major international report published today.

Tropical forest landscape

Tropical carbon loss has doubled due to forest clearance

Published
Monday 28th February, 2022
Categories
University
Science
Environment

Researchers using multiple high-resolution satellite observations have found that carbon loss has more than doubled since 2001 due to forest clearance across the tropics.

Airbus A380 arrives for cold weather testing - Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada

Thawing permafrost could release cancer-causing gas

Published
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
Categories
Global
Environment
Research

Thawing of permafrost due to climate change could expose the Arctic population to much greater concentrations of the cancer-causing gas Radon, a new story has found.