New book champions community action for sustainable consumption
Farmer’s markets, community allotments, time banks and straw-bale housing are held up as pioneering ‘seeds of change’ in a groundbreaking new book based on research carried out in ENV.
How micrometer sized algae may be influencing global climate
Photosynthesis by marine microalgae has long been known to be an important link between atmospheric CO2 and burial of carbon in marine sediments and the deep sea. New research now shows that some algae are more efficient contributors than others.
Protecting Europe's Built Heritage
What challenges will future climate change bring to the conservation of our ancient monuments and valuable buildings? Research in ENV is helping to predict important issues for the next century.
Iron supply to the Ocean: aerosol solubility
How do algae in the ocean get essential nutrients such as iron, which are very sparse in sea water? ENV researchers are piecing together bits of a very complicated jigsaw.
North Atlantic slows on the uptake of CO2
Further evidence for the decline of the oceans’ historical role as an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide is supplied by new research by environmental scientists from the University of East Anglia.
Unexpected growth in atmospheric CO2
A team of scientists has found that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) growth has increased 35 percent faster than expected since 2000. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Past rapid sea level change
Understanding recent sea level change is a very important subject particularly for those living in big coastal cities like London, or island nations such as the Maldives.
Paying for ecosystem services – who benefits? Who loses?
Markets to pay for watershed maintenance, carbon offsets, and biodiversity conservation are being developed throughout the world. New research by Neil Adger of the School of Environmental Sciences, with Esteve Corbera and Katrina Brown of the School of Development Studies, has questioned whether these payments for ecosystem services go to those actually providing the services.
Revaluing coastal wetlands
The School of Environmental Sciences has always had a tradition of novel inter-disciplinary research and two recently published papers on coastal management exemplify this, involving collaborations between physical oceanographers, hydrodynamic modellers, environmental chemists and environmental economists.
A helping hand for our national obsession
The notoriously dark art of forecasting the British weather is about to get much brighter – thanks to a groundbreaking new survey of the skies over Greenland.
Two researchers in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA, Dr Duncan Russel and Dr Andrew Jordan, have found significant flaws in the United Kingdom Government's attempts to reduce the environmental impacts of its policies.
Climate change affects Southern Ocean carbon sink
The first evidence that recent climate change has weakened one the Earth’s natural carbon ‘sinks’ is published this week in the journal Science
‘Short-circuit’ discovered in ocean circulation
Tracing the path of helium released from underwater volcanoes has revealed how the current that flows around Antarctica influences ocean circulation.
Cloning the smell of the seaside
A team of scientists from the Schools of Biological Sciences and Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia have isolated one of the key genes responsible for production of the characteristic smell of the seaside.
Improving clean energy carriers using nanotechnology
A team led by Dr Congxiao Shang, a lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA, has won an award of £208,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to improve hydrogen storage in solid form using nanotechnology.
UEA models improve global climate predictions
Researchers in the School of Environmental Sciences (ENV) are developing new modelling software to help the UK Meteorological Office and other organisations around the world predict future climate change more accurately.
Coordinating the uncoordinated?
All policy systems are struggling to respond to wicked policy problems like international terrorism, drug crime and unsustainable development, none more so than the European Union (EU) which is renowned for its fluidity, deeply sectorized structures and weak political leadership.
The Great Oxidation of the ancient atmosphere explained
Atmospheric oxygen rose to significant levels in the Earth's atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago in the so-called Great Oxidation, probably the biggest chemical transition in Earth history.
Is there a climate for policy change in Europe?
The Tyndall Centre in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA is leading a European Commission-funded integrated project which will lead to a better understanding of the trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies.
Tackling our couch potato culture
A research team led by Dr Andy Jones in ENV has recently been awarded a grant from the Medical Research Council to undertake a new study to identify the environmental determinants of physical activity in adults and children in Norfolk.
Catastrophic ‘lake burst’ chills climate
Ocean circulation changes during the present warm interglacial were more extensive than previously thought, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Cardiff University.
