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Tropical forests face an uncertain future under climate change, but new research published in Science suggests they can continue to store large amounts of carbon in a warmer world, if countries limit greenhouse gas emissions. The world’s tropical forests store a quarter-century worth of fossil fuel emissions in their trees alone. There are fears that global...
A researcher generating new possibilities for climate change risk assessment and responses has been named as the winner of the 2020 Piers Sellers Prize. Dr Katharine Mach, whose work informs effective and equitable adaptation to the risks posed by climate change, will receive the prize for world leading contribution to solution focused climate research at a...
Imagine a temperate rainforest in Antarctica, 90 million years ago. Thanks to James McKay’s illustration on the cover of Nature, you’ve got a great starting point. James is the manager for the Centres for Doctoral Training in Low Carbon Technologies, Bioenergy and Water-WISER at Leeds but for several years he has also been using his skills as an artist to engage the public in what a...
A new study has found extreme disparity in the use of energy among richer and poorer people – both within countries and between them. The study examined energy inequality for income classes across 86 countries, from highly industrialised to developing nations. In the first study of its kind, University of Leeds researchers combined European Union and World Bank data...
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario. As a result, this will lead to an extra 17 centimetres of sea level rise by 2100. A team of 89 polar scientists from 50 international organisations have produced the...