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A vast peatland in the Congo Basin has been mapped for the first time, revealing it to be the largest in the tropics. The new study found that the Cuvette Centrale peatlands in the central Congo Basin, which were unknown to exist five years ago, cover 145,500 square kilometres – an area larger than England. They...
Piers Sellers, astronaut and climate scientist, passed away on Friday 23 December in Houston from pancreatic cancer. He was 61. Dr Sellers had served as acting director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and was an alumnus of the University of Leeds. University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor Sir Alan Langlands said:...
John Plane, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and a deputy director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, has been awarded a medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for distinguished research in atmospheric sciences. The medal is named after Vilhelm Bjerknes, one of the leading atmospheric scientists of the first...
Leeds alumnus, three times Space Shuttle Astronaut, Climate Scientist, Deputy Director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate and all round Priestley Centre hero, Piers Sellers has been selected to receive the Space Foundation 2017 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award. Sellers was nominated for the award by British space journalist and broadcaster Sarah Cruddas,...
Climate change impacts are being felt the world over, but nowhere more so than sub-Saharan Africa. Even within this region, certain areas are particularly vulnerable and past research by CCCEP (Abson et al., 2012; Simelton et al., 2012) highlighted that Malawi is one of the worst affected by greater variability in climate affecting crop yields...