Researchers at the University of Leeds are collaborating with Indonesian-based organisations to support transgender women and climate activism through a board game and creative comics. The collaboration includes Dr Desy Pirmasari and Dr Katie McQuaid in the School of Geography; Sanggar Seroja, a collective of transgender women in Jakarta; Mahawira Dillon, a leading Indonesian boardgame designer; and illustrators Kartika Luthfiyah...
Climate change sceptics and climate activists are being urged to get together to try to find common ground as part of a study by the University of Leeds. Researchers want to understand what divides people and what might bring them closer together and have partnered with the Daily Mirror newspaper for a project called “Britain...
The continued pursuit of economic growth in high income countries is at odds with the climate targets and fairness requirements of the Paris Agreement, say researchers. No high-income country has achieved what could legitimately be called “green growth” – where economic growth occurs alongside emission reductions consistent with the Paris Agreement. The authors of the study, Jefim...
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research. For a long time, tropical forests have acted as a carbon sink, taking more carbon out of the air than they release into it, a process that has moderated the...
Increased carbon emissions from the Amazon rainforest are due to weak law enforcement, new research suggests. Emissions from Amazonia increased substantially in 2019 and 2020 at the same time as large-scale, illegal deforestation was expanding across the fragile ecosystem. Over the same period, the number of fines paid for environmental crimes dropped by almost 90%....
