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The third annual progress review of the University of Leeds Climate Plan has been published by the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and is now available on the Priestley Centre website. The review, was requested by Climate Principles Programme Board, which has overall accountability for delivery of the Climate Plan. The review will ensure that...
Research conducted at the University of Leeds has helped to uncover a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica, raising questions about future ice sheet behaviour. In an ambitious new study, the team, led by the University of York, produced the first Antarctic-wide, high-resolution monthly dataset of surface meltwater using satellite images. The research...
The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction – sometimes referred to as the “Great Dying”, happened around 252 million years ago, leading to the massive loss of marine species and significant declines...
The estimate of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C would be exhausted in a little more than three years at current levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to an international group of experts. The latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study published in the journal Earth System Science Data, reveals the central estimate of...
A €2.5m grant has been awarded to Professor Jan Selby by the European Research Council (ERC), the University’s first since the UK rejoined the EU’s Horizon research scheme post-Brexit. Professor Selby joined the School of Politics and International Studies as Professor of International Politics and Climate Change in 2023. His research focuses on international climate and...