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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.

Latest News and Events

Professor Carly Stevens and limestone pavement

Lancaster scientist receives fellowship to help study and protect rare limestone pavements

A Lancaster University scientist has been awarded a fellowship to help protect rare and precious, but largely understudied, limestone pavement environments.
Coral and flying seabirds

Feathered friends can become unlikely helpers for tropical coral reefs facing climate change threat

Tropical coral reefs are among our most spectacular ecosystems, yet a rapidly warming planet threatens the future survival of many reefs. However, there may be hope for some tropical reefs in the form of feathered friends.
A digger in soil

Lancaster University experts to help local authorities boost soil sustainability

Lancaster University experts are set to work with local authorities seeking to improve soil sustainability in their area.
Dr Celine Germond-Duret and Professor Nigel Watson

Lancaster University academics appointed to newly created college of environmental experts

Two Lancaster University academics have been appointed to the Government’s Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), as members of the newly created College of Experts.
The mountainous and icy coastline of the Antarctic Peninsula

Lancaster scientists help track rapid retreat of Antarctic glacier

Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can “switch very rapidly” and lose large quantities of ice as a result of warmer seas.  

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4th Jun

What next for the climate change culture wars?

Tuesday 4 June 2024, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

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