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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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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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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.

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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.

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New film highlights sustainability collaboration between Lancaster University and Lake District farmers

A collaboration between Lancaster University and farms in the Lake District aims to help move farmers towards net-zero meat production.
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Lancaster University based business helps UK National Parks reduce their carbon footprints

An environmental consultancy firm based at Lancaster Environment Centre has pioneered a project to help all 15 UK National Parks respond to climate and ecological emergencies.
Healthy coral reef, Indonesia

Lack of evidence hampers progress on corporate-led ecosystem restoration

A ‘near total’ lack of transparency is making it impossible to assess the quality of corporate-led ecosystem restoration projects, according to a Lancaster University-led study published today in Science.
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Vegetarian diet of corals explains age-old mystery dating back to Darwin

A new study has revealed why coral reefs can thrive in seemingly nutrient poor water, a phenomenon that has fascinated scientists since Charles Darwin.
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Lancaster scientists record wettest July

Lancaster University’s Hazelrigg weather station has experienced its wettest July since records began at the site in 1967. 

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