News and Updates

Times Higher Education says it is "developing a new global university ranking that aims to measure institutions’ success in delivering the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals."  This is, of course, just what the world needs. THE says that the first edition of...

The I-SEE seminar on Tuesday 30 October 2018 [ 1630 to 1745 ] is by Professor Phil Jones, Climate Research Unit Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.  His title is: ‘The global temperature average: a history, recent changes and their context...

I was at the NUS Sustainability Advisory Group on Friday and realised, for the first time, that I actually bring diversity to the group.  That is, I'm old; not that I feel it, of course, but objectively it’s the case....

Today's NAEE news round up reported on the Global Environmental Education Partnership's latest activities, including that GEEP has created a pledge for reinvigorating Environmental Education in the light of the sustainability challenges we face.  And we're asked to ACT NOW FOR EE and work toward...

The Economist (with takes graphs seriously) published two arresting ones recently. The first showed that, whilst extreme poverty is falling across most of the world, and very rapidly in some places, it's level in sub-Sarahian Africa, and may indeed have...

I wrote the other day about the opening of Bath's new Milner Centre for the study of evolution, and noted the presence of schoolchildren in the Centre on the day. It turns out that 120 students from three schools in...

About 25 years ago I worked on a UK-wide project with three rather splendid colleagues, the memories of whom rest with me today.  One of them, a witty, clever, insightful man of huge experience, regularly had me helpless with laughter...

I went to the opening of the Milner Centre for Evolution on Friday at the university.  It's a rather splendid building by the lake and was built with funds provided by Dr Jonathan Milner who was an undergraduate at Bath...

For someone quartered safely in Wiltshire, it is almost a shameful thing to say, but I find most burial mounds – barrows (long, round or otherwise) – pretty unimpressive when you see them up close.  I could almost live without...

DEFRA, with the DfE and Natural England, have now launched their Children and Nature Programme.  This will start in 2019 and end by spring 2023.  It sets out to deliver actions that they have committed to in the government’s 25...