Land & Seas

Meet our 2024/25 Earth Fellows cohort!

Back in November, we formally welcomed our latest cohort of 14 Earth Fellows – a...

December 5, 2024

Land & Seas Research

Researcher Spotlight: Professor Marc Metzger, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes

At the University of Edinburgh, researchers are at the forefront of tackling the twin crises...

October 17, 2024

Cars Health Innovation Land & Seas Research

How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it

“We have built a whole system around cars; car culture is prioritising cars above everything...

May 6, 2024

Land & Seas Research

The People and the Peat: Making a Living in the World’s Largest Swamp

In the Congo Basin lies an immense system of rivers, forests and swamps. Home to...

April 18, 2024

Forests Land & Seas Research

Amazon SOS: NERC ‘Large Grant’ Award for Scientists at the University of Edinburgh

A consortium of Brazilian and UK researchers, including University of Edinburgh’s Professor Patrick Meir, Chair...

March 21, 2024

Land & Seas Research

Crossing the Continent for Conservation: Grasslands in Madagascar and South Africa

A recent exchange program brought together Malagasy protected-area managers with conservation experts from South African...

February 29, 2024

Justice Land & Seas Research

Reflections from COP28: An Interview with Dr Sian Henley

As the snow settled around the hills of Edinburgh, things were heating up in Dubai...

January 30, 2024

Justice Land & Seas Partnership Research

The Vezo People of Madagascar: Navigating our Changing Oceans

On a white sandy Madagascan beach, surrounded by a forest of baobabs, young men launch...

December 7, 2023

Land & Seas Research

On Reimagining Climate Resilience Through Ecopoetics

Climate change is an urgent issue, and interdisciplinary approaches are the need of the hour....

July 3, 2023

Health Land & Seas Research Students

The Plastic Pandemic: Rethinking Medical Device Innovation, Use and Disposal for a Circular Economy

A guest blog from Advanced Earth Fellow Marie-Louise Wöhrle, organiser of the ‘The Plastic Pandemic:...

June 13, 2023

Energy Enterprise & Innovation Health Land & Seas Student Experience Students

Announcing the Winners of the Sustainable Business Idea Competition

Abigael Pertet, Emilio Soberon Bravo, Eloise Bevan and Maarten Van Den Ancker were recently announced...

May 25, 2023

Enterprise & Innovation Innovation Land & Seas Research

How Easy Rice Transforms Agriculture Through Artificial Intelligence

Nuttakan Wiriyakrieng, Chief Information Officer at Easy Rice Digital Technology, tells us how the company...

April 27, 2023

Health Justice Land & Seas

Ocean Voices, Ocean Leaders, and the UN High Seas Treaty

The Ocean Voices and Ocean Leaders programmes at The University of Edinburgh are taking the...

April 6, 2023

Health Land & Seas Research

From the Amazon to the Scottish Highlands: Local and Global peatlands research

Global peatlands are vital stores of carbon, but they are under threat. Changing patterns of...

November 14, 2022

Justice Land & Seas Partnership

Creating Climate Awareness Using Innovative Film Making

Impacts of climate change are disproportionate, depending upon the individual’s geographical location, age, gender, political...

November 13, 2022

Health Land & Seas Partnership

Driving Environmental Sustainability in Medical Practice through Innovative Research: The DiaDev Project

Whilst medical and life sciences research and innovation have direct social, economic and cultural benefits,...

November 13, 2022

Enterprise & Innovation Justice Land & Seas Student Experience

Driving Climate Action through a Community-based Approach: How Dophia Agroforestry is Leading the Change in Kenya

Over-farming, unpredictable rainfalls caused by the changing climate and the excessive cutting down of trees...

November 12, 2022

Land & Seas Partnership Research

Edinburgh Ocean Leaders: Creative and Sustainable Leadership for Ocean Solutions

A healthy ocean is essential for a habitable planet and to support the livelihoods of...

November 12, 2022

Energy Health Land & Seas

Engineering a Microbial Response to Ecological Crises

New developments in engineering biology have put two groups of Edinburgh academics at the cutting...

November 8, 2022

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