Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Mapping forest resilience hotspots in South America A new publication led by DPhil student Xiongjie Deng pinpoints Chilean forest resilience hotspots and areas of vulnerability to environmental change.

We're excited to share a paper led by DPhil student, Xiongjie Deng @xdeng.bsky.social. With colleagues from @ecioxford.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social and South America, he used remote sensing and field data to map forest resilience hotspots in Chile www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/mapping...

🌍 | Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science @ecioxford.bsky.social and Director of @naturerecovery.bsky.social‬, discusses his career and the importance of restoring our natural world. ⬇️
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#OxfordClimate

Important point from @ecioxford.bsky.social’s #brenda_boardman and @tinafawcett.bsky.social: cold weather payments need to arrive before freezing temperatures to prevent going without adequate heating. ⬇️

Removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere Researchers from Oxford discuss what net zero means and what a carbon budget is, as well as explaining how greenhouse gases can be removed from our atmosphere, and what happens to them once they are.

🌍 | Researchers are exploring how carbon dioxide can be removed from the atmosphere.

But once it’s removed, where does it go?

@ecioxford.bsky.social's‬ Prof Nick Eyre and @oxfordphysics.bsky.social @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social's Prof Myles Allen explain ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-...

#OxfordClimate

In our latest blog, Cecilia Dahlsjӧ takes a closer look at Ragwort, a plant which divides the UK countryside! Should we embrace or eradicate it?
www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk/research_sto...
Let us know in the poll below where you stand

@ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Check out our latest study on mapping biodiversity and the identification of potential resilience hotspots under environmental change.
To read the full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
To read the ECI post: www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
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chrisjardine.energy I'm Dr Chris Jardine, an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute. I've been teaching about Energy Systems and mitigating climate change for 25 years, and now ...

Chris Jardine, Honorary Research Associate @ecioxford.bsky.social is creating a YouTube series on energy. The first two are 'what is energy anyway' & 'energy services explained'. Really engaging, would benefit school/uni students as well as the rest of us! www.youtube.com/@chrisjardin... #energysky

A big congratulations to Prof Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social on his recent conferment — from 8-year-old environmentalist to a true force of energy!

Bottom left pic, second from left - 11-year-old Jan.

Prevalence of Processed Foods Compromises Sustainability The abrupt rise in UPFs threatens agrobiodiversity, or the variety in animals and plants used in the farming and food sectors.

Are ultra-processed foods harming the planet? 🌍

Dr. Marco Springmann says yes — from plastic waste to lost agrobiodiversity, the cost is steep. Time to rethink our plates.

⬇️ via The Good Men Project

#SustainableFood #UltraProcessedFoods #ClimateCrisis #Agrobiodiversity

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We must count the real costs of nuclear power | Letters Letters: With efficient renewables, the whole world could have a western European lifestyle and still use less energy, writes Nick Eyre, while Kathleen Askew asks what happens to hugely toxic radioact...

Writing in @theguardian.com‬‬,‬ @nickeyre.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the ECI, argues that 'Nuclear power is a costly distraction from building an efficient and renewable system.'

⬇️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵 & 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘵 @ecioxford.bsky.social, University of Oxford. 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @tinafawcett.bsky.social & Brenda Boardman, 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘈 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵 & 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳 at 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.

"𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞."

🗣️ Last weekend, we heard from Nick Eyre, Emeritus Professor of Climate and Energy at @ecioxford.bsky.social, at our event ‘The Energy Transition: A View From The Future’.

👉 tinyurl.com/bdhvw8v2

Name that tune/bird/bat...

Prevalence Of Processed Foods Compromises Sustainability

Dr Marco Springmann, Senior Researcher at the ECI - “If you processed some food at home, the chances are you expend more energy doing that, as the process isn’t as streamlined as a big factory.”

emagazine.com/prevalence-o...

Researchers Dr Labib Azzouz + Dr Hannah Budnitz from @ecioxford.bsky.social & @tsuoxford.bsky.social explore how EV charger types serve different users—& why location + funding matter for a fairer transition.

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#EV #NetZero #TransportEquity

Find out what the ECI team are doing at #ATBC2025 - the 61ˢᵗ Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation taking place in Oaxaca, Mexico.
@jeaggu.bsky.social

Could your favourite sports team help save the planet’s most iconic wildlife?

A study by ECI researcher @diogoverissimo.bsky.social urges sports organisations to help protect the animals they associate with.

www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/how-spo...

A Developer, an Ecologist and a Social Scientist Walk into a Habitat Bank… - The Nature Recovery Podcast GuestsNatalie Duffus (DPhil student, Dept. of Biology)https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/people/natalie-duffus/Matti Troiano (Research Assistant, School of Geography and the Environment)https://naturerec...

Curious how the biodiversity market in England is unfolding on the ground? @natduffus.bsky.social & Matti Troiano give an update on preliminary implications of #BNG in England, both social & ecological.

@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

YouTube video by chrisjardine.energy What is energy, and why is it important to society? | Energy 101, Episode 1

What is energy?

A simple question but a complex answer.

My colleague @chrisjardineenergy.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social has just released his launch video of a new video channel on energy.

Evidence-based, educational and fun. Highly recommend you watch this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnVn...

Prof Michael Obersteiner, ECI Director, delivered the keynote at EITFood’s livestock innovation event, highlighting that the biggest GHG emissions come not from animals directly, but from land use change.
Thanks to hosts #EITFood & partners #ABPFoodGroup & #Zoetis.

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Working with the @undp.org & others to ensure that the Nature Relationship Index is much more than just another academic paper is so important, adds @ymalhi.bsky.social‬ youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...
@ecioxford.bsky.social‬ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social‬

Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social

New global index to track how people + nature thrive together

@ecioxford.bsky.social + @naturerecovery.bsky.social join @undp.org and partners to propose the Nature Relationship Index.

➡️ www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/new-glo...

#NatureRecovery #NRI #PlanetaryFutures

The OPEN Forum: Risk and Resilience | University of Oxford How can the UK become more resilient? What can we do to better understand, anticipate, prevent and respond to some of the major risks affecting the country? To tackle these questions, this year's

A truly insightful day at @blavatnikschool.bsky.social for our first Forum, this year focusing on Risk & Resilience with UK policy people &researchers from @ecioxford.bsky.social @smithschool.ox.ac.uk @psioxford.bsky.social @compscioxford.bsky.social & many others.
www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

UK’s £2bn energy plan cuts costs for big industry—but leaves SMEs behind.

ECI’s @samhampton.bsky.social & @janrosenow.bsky.social Rosenow explain why small firms need more support to go green.

⬇️Read more: theconversation.com/uk-plan-to-c...

#EnergyPolicy #NetZero #SMEs #ECI

How to save the Amazon part one: the stakes – podcast In episode one of a three-part series, the Guardian’s global environment editor Jon Watts explores what’s at stake if we fail to protect the Amazon. He hears about the crucial role of the rainforest f...

‘How to save the Amazon’ – our environmental scientist @erikaberenguer.bsky.social Berenguer joins The Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast for a special three-part series exploring the challenges and solutions for the world’s largest rainforest. 🌳🎧

www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Congratulations to ECI's @avideshseenath.bsky.social and @jonnyjjt.bsky.social Teaching Excellence Awards winners!

Climate adaptation finance: From paper commitments to climate risk reduction Science can help to target climate finance at better-quality adaptation

Countries must act fast on climate adaptation. New research from the ECI urges clearer, costed plans & better finance to protect people & infrastructure from rising risks. Local & national efforts must align.

⬇️Read more in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ECI's Prof Nick Eyre "...the things we need to do in using energy more efficiently and using renewable energy are actually in people's interests because they are cheaper ways of providing the energy services that we need."