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Three new high-level appointments are set to consolidate the reputation for world-leading climate research at the University of Leeds and open new routes to policymakers. The Priestley International Centre for Climate welcomes Dr Jason Lowe, Head of Climate Services at the Met Office Hadley Centre, as the first Priestley Chair. Dr Lowe, who is also...
Lord’s has become the first cricket ground in the country to run on 100% renewable energy, as new figures reveal the increasing disruption to cricket caused by extreme weather patterns linked to climate change. New statistics released by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), owners of Lord’s, illustrate that extreme weather in December 2015, which has been...
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...
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,...
It is the year 2150 and Yorkshire has become “Elmet”, a regenerative anti-fragile society made up of a polyopolis of hub towns across the southern bioregion of the United North, stretching around the “Bay of York” and developed out of the old counties covering the river catchments of the Swale, Ure and Nidd, among others....