Lancaster Environment Centre

We are a community of high-achieving students, world-class environmental researchers, government scientists and enterprises working together to address today’s biggest environmental challenges.

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Undergraduate Degrees

Biology

Ecology and Conservation

Environmental and Earth Sciences

Geography

Zoology

Postgraduate Study

Study with the Graduate School for the Environment, which harnesses the power of three of the world’s foremost research organisations to give students the best possible chance of enjoying productive, impactful and influential careers.

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Masters by Research

PhD

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Latest News

Fickle sunshine slows down Rubisco and limits photosynthetic productivity of crops

Researchers from Lancaster University working to improve the sustainable productivity of key crops in sub-Saharan Africa have discovered an imperfection in a critical enzyme within cowpea – and believe this imperfection is likely shared with other crops.

Two images: satellite map of Antarctic ice sheet with patches of colour showing areas of elevation change (left) and Mal McMillan wearing running gear smiles to the camera from a hilltop with mountains behind (right)

Answers from space

Lancaster’s new professor combines his love of mountains and ice, with his mathematical skills and satellite data, to answer questions about how our ice sheets are responding to climate change.

Professor Nigel Watson and Professor Paul Withers

From ‘fatbergs’ and farm run-off to species loss and algal blooms – Lancaster researchers contribute to hard hitting report into the state of English Rivers

Lancaster University researchers have contributed key evidence to a hard-hitting report into the dire condition of English rivers.

A woman stands on a polder in Bangladesh

'A climate-vulnerable country’s experience at a UN summit: ignored, overlooked, then targeted by investment banks'

Lancaster Environment Centre researcher Dr Ehsan Kabir writes for The Conversation about a climate-vulnerable country's experience of the COP26 climate summit.

'Here’s why China probably won’t dominate the electric car market this year'

Lancaster Environment Centre Professor David Tyfield has written for The Conversation about China and the race for dominance in the electric vehicle market.

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Research Challenges

Our research challenges provide a focus for our fundamental and applied research, ensuring our work helps provide the underlying knowledge needed to find effective solutions.

Agri-Food

Eco-Innovation

Science for the Anthropocene

Sustainable Catchments

Tropical Futures

Research Groups

Our research groups include a wide range of researchers from the natural and social scientists. They work in multi-disciplinary teams within, across and beyond these groups to help find solutions to the big global environmental challenges.

Atmosphere, Climate & Pollution

Critical Geographies

Earth Science

Ecology & Conservation

Environmental & Biogeochemistry

Geospatial Data Science

Plant & Crop Science

Political Ecology

Soil, Plant & Land Systems

Water Science

Upcoming Events

25th Jan

Futures-thinking in Teaching and Research: An event series from the ISF showcasing futures pedagogy across Lancaster University

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 9:30am to Tuesday 15 February 2022, 10:30am

26th Jan

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