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Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a group of primitive plants to survive. Research led by the University has revealed how lycophytes - a type of ancient plant - not only survived a mass extinction 250 million years ago but then...
Work to restore heathland, meadows, woodland, peatlands and rivers in the uplands of South Cumbria has begun in earnest thanks to a new project supported by Defra’s Landscape Recovery Scheme. Work to restore heathland, meadows, woodland, peatlands and rivers in the uplands of South Cumbria has begun in earnest thanks to a new project...
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has recently published its new report examining the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) recommendations for the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget (CB7), the legally binding limits on UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2038 to 2042, and a key milestone on the pathway to net zero by 2050. Evidence submitted by Professor John Barrett and the Priestley Centre’s Climate Evidence Unit (CEU) helped to shape the Committee’s conclusions, with the Priestley Centre...
Leading climate scientists are urging world governments to commission the first authoritative global climate‑risk assessment, warning that the world is dangerously unprepared for the accelerating and interacting threats posed by climate change. Their call follows a new commentary led by Met Office experts and published in Nature, highlighting a “critical gap” in how global climate...
Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the University of Leeds has put a monetary value on one of forests’ least recognised services as a source of rainfall to surrounding regions,...