Category: Student blogs

Oil palm: does it have to be a frontier for environmental destruction?

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Ben Roberts, Research Postgraduate on Imperial’s President’s scholarship, is researching sustainable palm futures in West Africa. In this blog, he…

Clarity and effort needed to reduce travel emissions

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Ben Winchester, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership, reflects on his recent…

How to create a climate action mural: Meet art prize winner, Julia de Korab Skulska

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Julia de Korab Skulska, a second year biology student at Imperial, was one of the winners of the Grantham Institute…

A glimpse into the world of polar fieldwork 

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Rebecca Murray-Watson, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership and member of Imperial’s…

Línte na Farraige: Shedding light on rising seas, and what it means for us

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For the past two years, Jamie Mathews, an Imperial PhD candidate funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, has been…

Cutting costs and expanding access: how solar powered mini-grids could improve infrastructure in refugee camps

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Hamish Beath, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership, blogs about how using…

Implementing the Kunming-Montréal Agreement by ‘mainstreaming’ biodiversity 

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In December 2022, Matilda Eve Dunn, PhD student in the Centre for Environmental Policy, attended the 15th United Nations Biodiversity…

Future-proofing bananas: Helping bananas survive the climate change threat

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Sally Musungu, Research Postgraduate on the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Partnership, is studying the impact…