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A consortium of universities, development agencies, and NGOs has developed the Climate REEFS project to advance socially equitable climate change adaptation for coastal communities that depend on coral reef resources in Indonesia and the Philippines. According to a World Bank report, an additional 68 to 135 million people could be pushed into poverty by 2030 because of...
Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence or AI system to accurately map in one-hundredth of a second the surface area and outline of giant icebergs captured on satellite images. It is a major advance on existing automated systems which struggle to distinguish icebergs from other features in the image. Human or manual interpretation of the satellite imagery is the other option...
Stronger links between UK science and innovation and financial institutions will be forged at a new Innovation Hub in Leeds. The Hub, part of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI), is situated in Nexus, the University of Leeds’ innovation community, in partnership with Leeds University Business School and the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures. The Centre...
Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometres away to get warmer, according to a new study. The research, by a team of British and Brazilian scientists, led by Dr Edward Butt at the University of Leeds, suggests that tropical forests play a critical role in cooling the land surface – and that effect...
Humanity is rapidly reaching the limit for how much additional carbon can be emitted into the atmosphere to keep global warming within 1.5°C, according to a new research. If emissions stay at current day levels, what is known as the “remaining carbon budget” will be exhausted before the end of the decade. Dr Chris Smith,...