17 results found for environmental-science

In December 2009, policy makers meet in Copenhagen, Denmark to thrash out a new global deal on climate change. The aim is to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. We sent three young climate researchers along ....

This research is about developing a computer modelling tool to help manage surface water flooding.

Biological weathering and how this leads to soil formation

Yadvinder works in the Geography department at Oxford University. He looks at how human activity and especially carbon dioxide emissions have changed the ecosystems of tropical rainforests. This work takes him on regular trips to his two research sit....

How bacteria can be used to solve a variety of environmental problems.