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Ground Rules: Property and the Making and Remaking of the American Countryside

Harvard University

A presentation from 2026–2027 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow Jessica A. Shoemaker

Laura Bunt-MacRury (Centro de Estudios Agropecuarios, Cusco, Peru) "The Political Ecology of Biodiversity in the Andes"

University of Manchester · A202, Samuel Alexander Building, Manchester

This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Snow Problem? Why Arctic Snow Matters in a Warming World

Northumbria University · Lecture Theatre 003, Business & Law Building, City Campus, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ST

Snow Problem? Why Arctic Snow Matters in a Warming World

Integrating effect-based testing into early-stage development of Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) materials: A case study on flame-retardant vitrimers

ETH Zurich

Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) "Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan"

University of Manchester · Boardroom, 2nd floor, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester

As oceans rise worldwide, many governments are intensifying efforts to defend the towns and cities bordering them. Advocates of coastal infrastructure often argue that the best way to protect those…

Dance of the Droplets: Earth’s Freshwater Carousel and How It Is Changing

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Earth is a wet planet, kept alive by a flowing mosaic of water molecules. Almost all of that water is held in the salty ocean, but once it evaporates from the ocean surface and leaves the salt behind…

The Great Green Mirage

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

This lecture critically appraises greenwashing as a dominant instrument of planning policy. Urban greening, while globally fashionable, often serves as mere aesthetic camouflage for inadequate…

From Innovative Crop Pest Management by Pheromones to Approaching Sustainability in Food Production and Beyond - Professor John Pickett CBE FRS, Professor of Biological Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University.

University of Cambridge · Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

Early identification of sex related pheromones of agricultural pests opened similar opportunities for insect vectors of human pathogens. Although small molecules, sophistication in structural…

Watson Lecture - Woody Fischer: Earth science, climate and geobiology

California Institute of Technology · Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena

Explore how life learned to acquire carbon and how this gives us the ability to better predict future global change with Woody Fischer.

Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium

Centre for Language Culture and Communication · Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Join author Claudia Horn as she presents Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation. Better known for her revolutionary politics, Rosa Luxemburg was also an avid botanist.

Energy, Energy, Everywhere: Tapping into Earth’s Natural Energy Systems

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Around 80% of our global energy (including transport and industry as well as electricity) currently comes from fossil fuels. This energy was collected by plants over millions of years and stored…

SustainableED Virtual Seminar: Oren Pizmony-Levy, “Does the Public Support Climate Change Education? What Americans Think Schools Should Teach About Climate Change”

General

Climate change is a highly polarized issue in the United States. Democrats and Republicans differ substantially in how they understand the causes and consequences of climate change and in their…

Cooperation for Nature - Dr Mike Rands, Cambridge Conservation Initiative

University of Cambridge · Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

Abstract not available

Through the Lens of a Bee: From the Past to the Future - Professor Mark Brown, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology and Director of the University Museum of Zoology

University of Cambridge · Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

Bumblebees have become flag-bearers for insect conservation. Their role as pollinators makes them a key ecosystem service provider, their global declines make them an exemplar of insect declines more…

ALI LECTURE SERIES | Joyce Hwang, Ants of the Prairie

College of Design · Rapson Hall, 89 Church Street Se Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Join us for a series of lectures hosted by the Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design (ALI) during the 2026-27 academic year.

The Polluter Never Pays

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

This lecture examines the persistent tension between economic growth and human health through the lens of legislative failure. Honouring Rachel Carson’s early warnings about the mirage of industrial…

New Molecules on an Old Planet: How Pollution Clashes with the Earth System

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Discussions about chemical pollution often begin at the human source and end at the damage they cause to humans or the environment. But there are hundreds of different molecules circulating around…