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An entire ecosystem is at risk from the effects of climate change on the UK's blanket bogs, scientists at the University of Leeds have warned.

Caption: Setting up camp on sea ice in the Lincoln Sea, north of Greenland, in March 2014 as part of the ESA CryoVex experiment to measure sea ice properties including the depth of drifting snow.

The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by a third after the summer of 2013 as unusually cool air temperatures prevented the ice from melting, according to University of Leeds and UCL scientists.

On Tuesday 28th April, the School of Earth and Environment welcomed former student Keith Bloomfield on his first visit back to Leeds since the 70s!

Current and past students and staff are collaborating to help Malawi develop climate policies and practices that help it to address the threats of increasing droughts and more severe floods, such as those that displaced over 174,000 people.

SEE Academic Research Fellow Anja Schmidt has won the highly prestigious George Walker Award of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI).