![Professor Ian Brooks in a polar landscape](/images/resized/600x300-0-0-1-80-1_7.jpg")
Prestigious award for leading polar expert
Ian Brooks, Professor of Boundary Layer Processes at the ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ, has been awarded the Polar Medal.
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New weather app to save lives and livelihoods
A mobile phone app has been launched in Kenya to help people avoid the death and destruction caused by tropical storms.
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Wider-reaching solutions urgently needed to reach realistic ‘net zero’
There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach climate targets, a new report warns.
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Olivia Cotes-James: Talking taboos
Named in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list, founder of LUÃœNA Naturals Olivia Cotes-James (English Literature 2013) is improving lives across a continent.
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University sets out its Climate Plan
The ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ is making the single biggest investment in its history to achieve a low carbon future.
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Disabled people risk being left in the cold in a sustainable energy future
A new study reveals that disabled households in the Europe Union currently consume 10% less energy than other households, as well as being 5% more likely to experience energy poverty.
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Endangered Caspian seal habitat awarded important marine mammal area status
Special status has been awarded to the habitat of a species of seal left endangered due to human activity.
![Fossils of the now-extinct trilobite organism, Selenopeltis](/images/resized/600x300-0-0-1-80-Gernon_jadu.jpg")
Volcanic fertilisation of the oceans drove severe mass extinction
Scientists discover two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, causing one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.
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Efforts to restore Indonesian peatlands could save billions in wildfire costs
Plans to restore Indonesian peatlands are a cost-effective strategy for reducing the impacts of peatland fires to the environment, climate and human health, says a new study.
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Jonathan Wild: A million tree promise
Jonathan Wild (Hon LLD 2011), the former Chair and Managing Director of Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate, is dedicated to his mission to protect the planet.