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The Arctic Observing Summit
Peter Schlosser discusses the most recent Summit (2018) and the business case for a pan-Arctic observing system. There…
Tipping Positive Change to Avoid Climate Tipping Points
Tipping points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are increasingly causally intertwined in the…
Solar variability and its influence on climate
Joanna Haigh is Professor of Atmospheric Physics and the Co-Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and…
Early human evolution, climate change and brain expansion
Human evolution is characterised by speciation, extinction and dispersal events, However, none of these fully explain the timing…
Genome sequencing of the ash tree
Genome sequencing of the ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior).
Drought, disease, defoliation and death
Drought, disease, defoliation and death: forest pathogens as agents of past vegetation change.
Future Rx: optimism, preparation, acceptance of risk
The world contains the energy and mineral resources needed to sustain 10.5 billion at a European standard of…
Why has the glaciation of Greenland only developed so recently?
After doctoral research on the viscosity of the earth’s mantle at Princeton, Lawrence Cathles spent seven years at…
Park Land: How open data can improve our urban green spaces
Dr Katherine Drayson, Policy Exchange Park Land: How open data can improve our urban green spaces, 2013 http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/publications/categor…
Plant evolution and speciation
Steve Dodsworth discusses Plant evolution and speciation
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