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Farmers field work. Credit: Gary Keech

A new report recognises the necessity for farming to adjust to climate changes, to adapt and strengthen against extreme weather whilst improving production to address the world’s growing need for food

Dan Grosvenor, from the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, has written for 'The Conversation'.

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.