Environment and Biodiversity

Seaweed research in some of the least inhabited places could help us to answer the biggest questions challenging the sustainability of our planet.

Researchers worked with conservation volunteers to protect the water vole population from invasive American mink.

New methodologies for measuring levels of inorganic arsenic led to changes in food regulation around the world.

Researchers discovered and preserved the largest ever collection of Yup'ik artefacts and helped the community strengthen its cultural heritage.

Researchers are shaping an international approach to protecting and managing marine genetic resources.

After Glasgow in 2021, the focus of global attention on international climate change negotiations has moved on to Sharm-el-Sheikh as Egypt takes on the presidency of the UN’s Climate Change Convention for COP27.

Poet, writer and performer Genevieve Carver is currently working with SBS marine biologists at the Lighthouse Field Station in an exciting new arts-science collaboration. She’ll be taking inspiration from marine science to develop creative outputs integrating poetry, spoken word, audio and video.

There is significant concern about the impacts of an invasion of non native Firethorn in South America. Fiona Plenderleith asks how we can predict where invasions are going to be both rapid and dense in a study system where there is no long-term data and where resources are limited?

Virginia Iorio-Merlo and Dr Oihane Fernández-Betelu from the School of Biological Sciences discuss how the use of AI technologies has helped their study of interactions between dolphins and salmon and played an important role in aiding the investigation of important conservation questions.

Aberdeen professors have been contributing to international policy-making in three UN institutions to bring about a fair, science-informed and legally consistent approach to policy procedure.

Join Dr. Thereza Raquel Sales de Aguiar as she interviews fellow academics, environmentalists and careers specialists on the future sustainability of accounting and what this means for the next generation of accountants and business leaders.

This series reflects on COP 26 and explores the role of participatory action research in addressing water challenges in rural communities.

This episode of From The Old Brewery investigates how journey narratives written by travelling naturalists in different times and contexts have been utilised in understanding the relatedness of humans, organisms and the rest of the material world.

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In a rapidly changing world, we aim to be open to other perspectives and understand how culture and diversity shape human experience.

By making the most of our proximity to nature, our researchers are addressing major environmental challenges both close to home and far afield.

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