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UCL has pledged to become a Nature Positive University, marking a major step in its response to the biodiversity crisis and reinforcing its ambition to place nature at the heart of sustainability.

New funding will help UCL researchers examine how habitat loss and climate change affect pollinators, crop pollination and human diets, revealing risks to ecosystems and food security worldwide.

We would like to warmly welcome Sean to the GEE department.

Time-Travelling through Lake Sediments: 300 Years of Post-Industrial Freshwater Biodiversity and Genomic Change

Environmental crises are tracked with data and reports, but also lived daily. What if these experiences counted as evidence? Mapping could show crisis not only as disruption, but as a social reality.

The Secrier and Murrell labs have received BBSRC funding to develop cross-disciplinary tools for spatial biology that take inspiration from ecological modelling.

CHRYSES, a bold interdisciplinary project funded by HERA and AHRC, explores how humanity has understood crisis through stories, symbols and knowledge systems—offering insights to tackle today’s environmental and health emergencies.

We're delighted to announce that Dr Joanne Littlefair has been awarded the 2025 Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal.

Researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre describe how their new simulation methods improve understanding of how patterns of biodiversity emerge across the globe.

Researchers identify a new fundamental rule governing how ecosystems are assembled, that reveals how and why biomass increases with the number of species, whether this be the mass of fish on a coral reef, earthworms in the soil or birds in the sky.

Freshwater ecosystems globally are facing increasing stressors, while traditional surface water monitoring by regulatory agencies is often hampered by financial and political constraints. However, citizen science is providing a promising solution.

A special edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Biological Sciences) dedicated to the life’s work and memory of Professor Dame Georgina Mace, founding Director of UCL's Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, was published on 9 January.

Congratulations to Tim Blackburn and Tim Newbold for their awards.

Bioscience and environmental science PhD students at UCL are to benefit from a share of a £500 million investment announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) today.