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Climate policies alone will not save Earth's most diverse tropical forests

A focus on policies to conserve tropical forests for their carbon storage value may imperil some of the world's most biologically rich tropical forests, says new research.

Ross Gillard, PhD student in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.

Piers Sellers award for PhD student

Ross Gillard, PhD student in the School of Earth and Environment, has been awarded a Piers Sellers prize.

Aire and Calder Navigation - a canalised section of the River Aire and River Calder. Credit: Lee Brown

Going with the flow - Tackling the environmental management of river flow

Ensuring the economic, cultural and ecological value of rivers through more effective water flow management is the focus of a new research project led by the University of Leeds.

Prize winners; Ross Gillard, Ekbal Hussain and Camilla Mathison with Dr Steven Dobbie, Deputy Head of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.

Postgraduate Prize Winners

Four postgraduate researchers from the School have been awarded for their recent journal publications.

View from British Antarctic Survey Rothera research station, on Alexander Island at the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: A.E. Hogg/CPOM

Arctic Peninsula ice more stable than thought

Glacier flow at the southern Antarctic Peninsula has increased since the 1990s, but a new study has found the change to be only a third of what was recently reported.