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.

Taught Masters Degrees

Masters by Research

PhD

Professional Training

Latest News

Gordon walker smiles to the camera outside the Lancaster Environment Centre building

Top award for Lancaster University social scientist

Professor Gordon Walker from the Lancaster Environment Centre has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the UK’s most prestigious award for social scientists.

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Lancaster joins global fight against Covid-19.

Scientists from Lancaster University's Environment Centre and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology have donated specialist equipment to help in the global fight against Covid-19.

Lancaster scientists record wettest ever February

Scientists at Lancaster University’s Hazelrigg weather station say we have just experienced by far the wettest ever February since their records began in 1966.

In a dry sandy landscape with scattered palm trees, a group of Malian villagers, including their Chief and some young boys, are in the early stages of building a hospital from concrete breeze-blocks.

A changing world seen through a rural African lens

A new book telling the story of one African village over 35 years shows how shifts in global culture, technology and climate are changing even some of the remoter parts of the planet.

An artists impression of the solar system from the sun on the left, through the inner planets and asteroid belt to the far outer reaches on the right

Aiming for the moon and beyond

Proposals for new space explorations involving four Lancaster graduates have reached the final stage of NASA’s competition to find missions to become part of the next Discovery Programme.

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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

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

28th Apr

ISF Breakfast Briefing - Finding bibliotherapy: understanding future directions

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 9:30am to 10:30am

12th May

ISF Breakfast Briefing - Tomatoes for tomorrow

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 9:30am to 10:30am

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