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More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change – according to research from the University of East Anglia. Research published today in the journal  Nature Climate Change  looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of...

Researchers from the University of East Anglia have helped create the first report to show how Britain's landscape and wildlife are under threat from climate change and extreme weather. Published today, the report reveals what is happening in the UK’s countryside, how climate change is contributing to those changes, and what could happen in the future. It reveals how birds, bugs, butterflies, plants and some mammals are in free fall decline - as extreme weather, climate change...

Global warming may seem like a relatively newly-discovered phenomenon – but climate scientists are this month celebrating the 75th anniversary of the breakthrough that helped kick-start research into one of the world’s biggest scientific questions. The global warming effect did not reach the mainstream of public consciousness until the 1980s. But the research that first confirmed the planet was warming was written by a British amateur climatologist, Guy Stewart Callendar, in April 1938. ...

The aviation industry has long been accused of contributing to climate change. Now scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) have found that climate change will affect aviation – by increasing air turbulence and causing flights to get bumpier. Researchers from the University of Reading and UEA analysed supercomputer simulations of the atmospheric jet stream over the North Atlantic Ocean. The study, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to examine...

Students from the University of East Anglia (UEA) have won a national competition to improve the image of the energy sector - with tea and biscuits. The team of four triumphed at the RWE npower Energy Challenge, an annual inter-university competition to find the brightest young minds in the UK. Finalists were asked how energy providers can engage more positively with their customers using existing and emerging technologies. The UEA team proposed a range of measures providing...

3S is pleased to welcome its first international visiting PhD student Charlotte Jensen. Charlotte is from Aalborg University Copenhagen in Denmark, and her PhD is part of a research alliance called Enabling and Governing Transitions towards a Low Carbon Society. Specifically, she researches social practices in energy related transitions, with focus on changes in domestic electrical lighting. Charlotte has been inspired by some core 3S work developed by Tom Hargreaves , Noel ...

Around half of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The seasonally flooded grasslands around the Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, are of great importance for biodiversity and a refuge for 11 globally-threatened bird species. They are also a vital fishing, grazing, and traditional rice farming resource for around 1.1 million people. Research published today in the...

Gill Seyfang is one of a core faculty team teaching about Grassroots Innovations and Sustainability Transitions at the Second Annual Summer Institute in New Economics hosted by the Wingspread Retreat Center, Wind Point, WI (USA) August 12-18, 2013. Dire ecological news and the failures of the global economy are fuelling interest in a “new economics” grounded in principles of ecological sustainability, the democratization of wealth, community empowerment and social and digital...

Amy McDougall, a postgraduate research student at the University of East Anglia (UEA) will attend Parliament to present her science to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges as part of SET for Britain on March 18. Amy’s poster on research about predicting the impact of climate change on species will be judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national competition of its kind. The student from UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences was shortlisted...

Current approaches to deer management are failing to control a serious and growing problem, according to new research by the University of East Anglia. Researchers drove more than 1140 miles at night and used thermal imaging and night vision equipment to quantify the population of roe and muntjac deer in a unique study spanning the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. The results, published today in the  Journal of Wildlife Management , show for the first time that present...