Research stories

BUILDING BRIDGES: ENGAGING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Social and environmental challenges are deeply interwoven. Responding to overlapping concerns about climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality is not merely a scientific or technical enterprise, but also ...

Universities restoring nature – Join the Alliance of Nature-Positive Universities

UNEP and the University of Oxford are launching a global network of Nature Positive Universities in order to prompt the prioritization of nature and its restoration within the ...

The natural world is critical to climate – Professor Yadvinder Malhi

The living world is not a sideshow in the climate debate. Our climate benefits from a healthy and flourishing biosphere, just as ecosystems and the diversity of living ...

Nature-based Solutions in Action in the UK – Nature Day documentaries launch at COP26

Research shows that further climate warming and biodiversity loss are now unavoidable but that we still have time to make a lasting difference: i.e. to keep warming below ...

Academic policy engagement for biodiversity needs to take transdisciplinarity seriously

Biodiversity is the basis of life on Earth and the root of human existence. The complex synergy between plants, animals, earth and air underpins everything people do, and ...

Working at the crossroads of art and science

​Art can be an effective way of communicating scientific research. It can connect people from different backgrounds, stimulate discussion, and produce knowledge and understanding. Moving beyond the written ...