Article by Pip Roddis, University of Leeds Subsidies for onshore wind power were cut by the UK government in 2015. Then the main reasons given were that it was too expensive and that the public didn’t support it. Amber Rudd MP, then head of what was the Department of Energy...
Image by Maria Beger Coral reef ecosystems are collapsing, with live coral cover on reefs having nearly halved over the past 150 years. These small polyp-like creatures, related to jellyfish, secrete a calcium carbonate exoskeleton that forms the reef – a habitat that provides shelter and food for a rich...
Environmental artist Kat Austen, who developed her multi-media performance The Matter of the Soul in conversation with researchers at the Priestley International Centre for Climate, has performed the iconic work at the UN climate conference in Poland. Kat, who was Cultural Institute Fellow in Arts and Science 2017–18, used her time...
Priestley International Centre for Climate PhD researcher Claire Cooper writes about her first experience as a newly appointed Fellow for “Under Her Eye” Very occasionally, in the course of our academic lives, we are given the opportunity to step out of our comfort zone and explore the questions we have...
Cities looking to reduce their impact on the environment often overlook the main source of their carbon emissions. Here a Leeds research group argue that we are targeting climate change in the wrong way By Andrew Sudmant, Andy Gouldson, Kate Scott and Joel Millward-Hopkins We tend to think about our...