We spoke to Professor Martin Dallimer, Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the Centre for Environmental Policy, about how access to pristine woodlands is key to unlocking the mental health benefits of nature.
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Alice Day is a PhD student at the Waring Lab and the Fisher Lab within the Department of Life Sciences. She researches the potential of fungal inoculations in restoring agricultural land. In this blog post, she discusses how modern agriculture has depleted our soils of the microbes that once made them thrive, and how we may one day re-introduce them.
Krystal Birungi, a field entomologist from Uganda and an advocate for investment in fighting malaria, spoke about the release of the World Health Organisation’s World Malaria Report 2024, In December, Krystal visited the House of Commons to call for increased funding to combat the disease, which claims the life of one child every minute in Africa.
Malaria remains one of the leading causes of death on the African continent, which bears the heaviest burden of the disease. In 2023, Africa accounted for an estimated 94% of global malaria cases and 95% of malaria-related deaths.
Here she shares her thoughts on the new World Malaria Report.
PhD student Rupali Dabas explores how targeted drug delivery systems could bring us closer to transformative treatments.
Eirini Sampson, a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Policy, co-founded the Sustainability Future Toolkit – an online resource that helps future-proof the careers of students looking to be part of the critical green transition. From helping students develop ‘green skills’ to learning about how to enter specific industries, she explains how her toolkit prepares students for a sustainable job market.
Postdoctoral researcher in the Space and Atmospheric Physics group, Adrian LaMoury, delves deep into the science of auroras and the future of forecasting space weather.
“Any chance of northern lights in Cambridge tonight? Saw a dubious tweet”
This was the message I received from a friend on the evening of 10 May 2024. I replied that it was their best chance in years.
The Georgina Mace Centre (GMC) Living Planet Debate recently brought together leading biodiversity experts and policymakers to discuss just how effective international treaties and targets actually were in communicating the current global biodiversity crises.
Are goals like ’30 by 30’ – the global commitment to designate 30% of Earth’s land and ocean area as protected areas by 2030 – useful in conveying the urgency of conservation efforts and capturing the science underpinning biodiversity?
Here are our five takeaways from this year’s GMC debate, which is now available to watch on Youtube.
PhD student Zhenna Azimrayat Andrews breaks down how marine life, alongside ambitious plastic pollution reduction goals, can help us eliminate microplastics from surface oceans.
This story begins in the 1950s, when plastics began to be produced commercially at a large scale. Each and every piece that was produced from that era onwards still exists in some capacity today. The convenience and wide range of applicability of plastic revolutionised consumption patterns for modern society, however, we are now facing the consequences of our resource-inefficient, linear plastic economy.
Elsy Milan talks about her first days as a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) at Imperial College London. She works on policies that would create sufficient demand for the market uptake of carbon capture, uptake and storage technologies.
From 8-15 June 2024, the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London organised a Learning and Design Lab in Nairobi, Kenya, involving 8 students from Imperial and 12 from Strathmore University. The five-day co-creation lab aimed to develop specific design solutions for an e-waste management challenge posed by the WEEE Centre, a social enterprise specialising in sustainable e-waste management in Africa.
