School of Earth and Environment

Top 15 in the world

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018

More
Postgraduate students walking school of Earth and Environment Leeds
More

Avoiding fossil-fuel “lock-in” could help limit global temperature rise

There is a 64% chance of limiting the increase in global average temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels if fossil fuel infrastructure is immediately phased out, according to new research.

Find out more
image of fossil fuel infrastructure
Find out more

Environmental Challenges

Explore how human society interacts with the natural world, through this flexible program of online courses

Find out more
Pollution
Find out more
Scroll down

School of Earth and Environment

The School of Earth and Environment is home to one of the largest groupings of Earth, environmental and social scientists tackling global issues such as climate change, energy, water and sustainable development. Our research feeds directly into our teaching, which means you’ll learn about the latest developments in your field from world-leading researchers.

Study

Undergraduate student

Undergraduate degrees

Our world-leading research feeds directly into our teaching which means you will learn from people who are international authorities in climate science, sustainability, geology and geophysics.

More
Masters students

Masters courses

Our range of masters courses will equip you with not only expert subject knowledge, but with important professional and transferable skills that employers require.

More
Research projects

Research degrees

As a researcher at Leeds, you will be immersed in a friendly, supportive and diverse research community where you can make breakthroughs happen.

More
Landscape

Research and innovation

We are a major international powerhouse for environmental research that has wide-ranging and positive impacts on the world that we live in. Our research is carried out within five institutes which represent our core research areas, but much of our work is cross-cutting, tackling complex global challenges.

More

News and events

See more news like this

LIFD launch

LIFD launch – watch the talks online

The Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics (LIFD) is celebrating a successful…

More
Government confirms 150-plus Leeds PhD places

Government confirms 150-plus Leeds PhD places

More than 150 fully-funded PhD researcher places are being created in Leeds…

More
Pipes civil

Meeting the global challenges of water security and urban disaster planning

Researchers from Leeds are partners in two pioneering international…

More
A new cross-disciplinary institute to study fluid dynamics will launch on January 30th, 2019.

Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics launches in January

A new cross-disciplinary institute to study fluid dynamics will launch on…

More

See more events like this

ICAS Internal Seminar

ICAS internal seminar with Dr Sam Hardy, and Martin Daily. Chair: Stewart Jennings

Monday 25 February 2019, 14:00 - 15:00

More

ICAS External Seminar

Professor Yinon Rudich, Weizmann Institute of Science

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00 - 15:00

More

SRI External Seminar

Presented by Daniela Portella Sampaio.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:00 - 17:15

More

Earth Surface Science Institute seminar, title tbc

Earth Surface Science Institute seminar. Speaker Paul Quinn, Diamond Light Source Ltd.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 11:00 - 12:00

More

Online study

Explore the relationships between people and nature, and the challenging and difficult decisions we face when managing natural resources, through this flexible program of online courses.

More

Schools outreach

We deliver events and activities to showcase this fascinating subject area to students at schools and colleges across the UK.

More

Alumni

As a graduate of the School you are one of our most important advocates, and we are always delighted to hear from our former students.

More

Recruit our students

We provide businesses with access to our talented students through a free end-to-end, managed recruitment service.

More