Past events

Over 13,000 scientists have declared that the Earth faces a climate emergency, and an emergency is an urgent situation requiring us to refocus on the task at hand, yet much of conservation ...

In this talk I survey recent bioarchaeological methods and case studies in the investigation of past land use and biodiversity. Recent work on early farming in western Asia and Europe is revealing ...

The drivers of environment and development challenges are complex and cross-cutting in nature, requiring the collaboration of different disciplines and sectors, often across geographies, to understand and address them. However, the increasing ...

Abstract: Enabling farmers and food processors to measure their environmental impacts and productivity and communicate this information up supply chains, while also providing researchers with greater access to consistent producer-specific data, would ...

Forests are an essential component of the climate challenge. Strategies to expand their area and carbon storage capacity are referred to as natural climate solutions. Yet whether reforestation is natural and whether ...

The research Anne-Caroline Prévot is pursuing with her colleagues and students aims at understanding the interrelationships between experiences of nature, biodiversity conservation and social bonds. She investigates how experiences of nature and ...

  Co-hosted by the UN Environment Programme and the University of Oxford, this session will consider the need for nature-positive universities. An exploration of the university experience in implementing environmental sustainability strategies and ...

Author & journalist Mary Colwell has pushed for a GCSE in Natural History for 10 years. Now It looks as if it’s going to happen, & hopefully teaching will start in September ...

Schools are always keen to have academics come and talk to their students, but if you get the call, what do you talk about and how do you pitch it? We keep ...

The fabric of life on Earth is unravelling, and this decade will be crucial in exacerbating this trajectory or bending it. Professor Sandra Diaz will explore three major factors that have contributed ...