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Professor Dan Marsh joins the Priestley International Centre for Climate as the Chair in Comparative Planetary Atmospheres, which he will hold jointly in the School of Physics and Astronomy and the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds. Dan Marsh will divide his time between Leeds and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in...
Wetter winters and coastal erosion linked to climate change are threatening the sport of golf, according to a new report that University of Leeds scientists have contributed to. Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, provided evidence to the report by the Climate Coalition, along with research associate Kate Sambrook. “We’ve...
A study led by the University of Leeds has found that no country currently meets its citizens’ basic needs at a globally sustainable level of resource use. The research, published in Nature Sustainability, is the first to quantify the sustainability of national resource use associated with meeting basic human needs for 151 countries. Each country’s...
A paper on the devastating impact of climate change on coral reefs, published in Nature (16 March), tops the most read climate news stories based on journal articles for 2017. Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals, by Hughes et al, had 46 co-authors, including the Priestley Centre’s Dr Maria Beger and Dr Brigitte Sommer...
The January 2018 edition of the Priestley Centre’s monthly bulletin can be read here. Contents: Piers Sellers PhD prize – 2018 nominations open Prof Jan Minx inaugural seminar (31 January) James Mckay’s prehistoric paintings Climate research round up Priestley climate events Priestley Society forthcoming activities Blogs Funding opportunities Image: Pliocene Greenland – 3 million years ago,...