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This study examines the combined effects of land cover change and ENSO on streamflow dynamics in four coastal catchments of central Chile, using a 45-year (1979–2023) dataset of remote sensing and hy...

Lake-terminating glaciers across Greenland flow more rapidly at their termini, with 44% showing down-ice accelerations, and with greater accelerations associated with larger lakes, according to analys...

BHS symposium Leeds 2026

Decommodification is widely considered a central pillar of progressive socioecological transformations, like the green new deal, degrowth and ecosocialism. Yet it is inadequately problematised and ...

Project opportunity - Global Methane Politics at the University of Leeds

**3 Positions**Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have interests or background in environmental politics, political ecology or related areas? Do you want to furthe...

YES•DTN Applications for October 2026 will open on Monday 17 November 2025, and close at 13:00, Wednesday 7 January 2026. Please see the ‘Join us’ pages for more information. We are a partnership betw...

by Jan Selby*  Last year, the annual circus of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) travelled to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. The proceedings w...

Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds

Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster

Involving communities in flood early warning systems (FEWS) is increasingly recognised as an essential component of flood resilience. FEWS is considered to be integrated systems of flood forecasting ...

Leeds COP30 Delegate, Jyoti Narsude from the School of Geography, gives her thoughts on the first week of COP in Brazil... UNFCCC's COP30 began with hopes similar to those of previous COPs—finding eff...

Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...

River metabolism is among the most uncertain fluxes in the global carbon cycle. We present estimates for gross primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER) for more than 175,000 rivers ac...

Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution