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Rising sea water partially submerges a footbridge and has flooded a nearby road. There is an orange caution sign in the foreground.

Scientists find three years left of remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C

The central estimate of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C is 130 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and will be exhausted in a little more than three years at current levels of emissions.

A large group of international researchers standing on the grass at the University of Leeds campus with trees and bushes behind them.

Collaboration for clean water

International water researchers came together at the University of Leeds to create solutions to global water challenges.

A person stands at the bottom of a giant tree. The bottom of the tree is darker than the trunk above, indicating flooding has occured.

Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 years, which show that wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier.

The moon above icbergs and cliffs behind the open water, all tinged pink by the sunset.

Protecting the Antarctic environment

Researchers from the University of Leeds contributed to a House of Commons committee report about the Antarctic environment, which includes recommendations to the government.

Close-up image of the Drypetes oliveri tree species showing its leaves and fruit

Rare, new species of giant tree in the Amazon named after Professor Oliver Phillips

Professor Phillips writes about the discovery of the 35-meter-tall giant ‘hiding in plain sight’ in the intact Amazon rainforest of southeastern Peru.