Following massive public concern about the quality of the air we breathe, the Grantham Institute hosted a discussion that explored…
Category: Impacts & adaptation
The pitfalls of hydroelectric power in drought-prone Africa
Alvaro Lara, former student on the MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance programme, considers Africa’s reliance on hydroelectric power, the impact of…
Excessive heat, droughts and floods – how can ‘blue-green infrastructure’ help?
Kathryn Brown, Grantham Research Fellow and Head of Adaptation at the UK Committee on Climate Change, blogs on why we…
Feeling the heat? So is our economy!
Tarek Cheaib, former student on the Grantham Institute and Imperial College Business School MSc in Climate Change, Management and Finance,…
The future of power in Japan: Connecting life-saving disaster resilience with a low-carbon energy system
Hamish Beath, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, undertook a research placement at the…
Tracing the white water: how vulnerable are water resources to melting glaciers?
On World Water Day 2018, a group of UK and Peruvian scientists will be visiting the glaciers of the Cordillera…
Ring of Fire: the future of ecological climate change research?
‘Ring of Fire’ is a four-year research project that investigates how rising temperatures of global warming could affect freshwater ecosystems. A…
Ring of Fire: how biofilms will help us understand the impacts of climate change
‘Ring of Fire‘ is a NERC-funded research project that, over the course of four years and five geothermal sites in…
It’s not just the plight of the bumblebee, we need to protect all our pollinators
Kate Rowell, Grantham Institute and Imperial College Business School Master’s student studying Climate Change, Management and Finance, looks at why…
Is climate change above ‘post-truth’?
In this opinion piece, Luke Bevan discusses the modern ethical challenges of communicating climate change science to the general public.