25 June 2018
Research Fellow Emma Ferranti and Professor Lee Chapman's 2017 article was one of the most downloaded recent papers in the 12-months post online publication.
22 June 2018
Doctoral researcher Emma Dunne has won an Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award for her poster presentation at the 2018 European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly.
22 June 2018
Leverhulme Research Fellow Dr Thomas Halliday is the prose winner of the 2017–2018 Hugh Miller Writing Competition.
20 June 2018
The creation of "green walls" in urban areas could cut pollution by up to 30%, scientists have suggested.
20 June 2018
Former PhD student and current research associate Martin Ezcurra and Richard Butler have published a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
20 June 2018
GEES doctoral researcher Emma Dunne has won the 2018 Michael K. O'Rourke Best PhD Publication Award for the College of Life and Environmental Sciences
13 June 2018
"Have palaeontologists actually come any closer to reviving dinosaurs today?" The answer is a clear "No" and also a clear "Yes".
08 June 2018
You are what you eat' has long been an adage and call to eat fresh, home-made rather than processed foods, but with recent reports of microplastics contamination of global sea salt, bottled waters and even household dust, this can now be extended to what you eat, drink, touch and breathe, or simply 'you are what you are exposed to!
25 May 2018
Dr Stephen Dugdale and Professor David Hannah discuss how cutting-edge technology can be used to help preserve the UK's valuable rivers for future generations.
23 May 2018
Dr James Wheeley, along with US and Canadian colleagues, has published findings of a project researching the state of global-ocean oxygenation 445 million years ago at the end of the Ordovician period when ~85% of marine species went extinct.
21 May 2018
A major new campaign to protect the UK's oak trees includes help from BIFoR.
14 April 2018
We were delighted to welcome Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on a visit to the College of Life and Environmental Sciences on Wednesday 11 April 2018, alongside Counsellor Robert Alden of Birmingham City Council.