Research stories

Wild or manicured? Why we disagree about messy natures

Current aspirations for nature recovery to address biodiversity loss and climate change involve changing what landscapes look like What is considered neat or messy impacts on action and policy ...

COP16 Colombia, a newcomer’s reflection

By Yadvinder Malhi In late October 2024, the UN Convention on Biodiversity held its biennial large meeting (the Conference of Parties, or COP). This convention is a sister of ...

US election: Trump is threatening to turn back the tide on America’s environmental laws and reverse climate progress

Stephen Lezak, University of Oxford and Barbara Haya, University of California, Berkeley The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used to catch fire every decade or so. ...

Why is the Biodiversity Cop seen as the poor relative to the Climate Cop?

Professor Yadvinder Malhi, is at Cop 16 and commented on why Biodiversity has been slow to get on the agenda. “I think one of the reasons that the climate ...

Volunteering opportunities

With so much biodiversity-related research being carried out around the University we thought it might be an idea to host a page on our website where students/researchers who ...

How profits from big pharma’s use of genetic information could revolutionise nature conservation

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Authors: Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford. Dale Squires, ...