Social Sciences

A plate with a world map incorporated into the centre. Either side is a knife and a fork.

Fixing the broken food system would unlock trillions of dollars in benefits, study finds

In the foreground, rubbish lies scattered around heaps of dirt. In the background, a city scape is visible, with industrial towers belching fumes into the sky.

Expert comment: Urbanisation’s role in the climate crisis is being overlooked

A spread of plant-based foods including flat breads, tomatoes, spring onions, oranges, carrots, blueberries, and garlic. In the foreground, two hands hold a bowl of lentil curry with tofu.

Expert Comment: Why Veganuary: The environmental benefits of a low and no meat diet

Investors are “flying blind” to risk of climate lawsuit

Investors are 'flying blind' to risk of climate lawsuits

Close up of an archaeologist using a paintbrush to remove dirt from a half buried human skeleton.

New technique identifies earliest cases of genetic disorders from ancient DNA

Early-life diseases linked to lifelong childlessness

Early-life diseases linked to lifelong childlessness

Fair Water

Fair Water? An exhibition of the inequality below the surface at Oxford's Natural History Museum

COP pic

Expert Comment: Turning COP’s promises into progress and the rise of climate regulation

The study concludes that the erosion of natural capital linked with biodiversity loss and environmental degradation generates significant and long-term risks to society, the economy and finance, from increasing the risk and impacts of pandemics, floods an

$5 trillion of nature-related economic risks will amplify climate change, says Oxford study

Net Zero needs carbon capture

Expert Comment: It is remarkable how much we agree. COP28 and the transition from fossil fuels

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