Environment

Mark Lynas shows how we must use our technological mastery over nature to save the planet from ourselves at a Grantham Special Lecture.

A Grantham Special Lecture by Professor Marten Scheffer, Center for Water and Climate, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Dr Mark Richards explains how pupils in Brighton are helping Imperial scientists monitor air pollution around their schools.

Imperial scientists gather air pollution data with the help of Brighton school children

A Grantham Institute for Climate Change Special Lecture given by Sir John Lawton, former Chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

Energy generated from plant biomass could deliver up to one fifth of global demand without causing a decline in food production, according to a new report by Imperial scientists, working with the UK Energy Research Centre

A team of Imperial students have engineered e.coli bacteria to help plants survive soil erosion, scooping up top prizes at the final of the 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) World Championship at MIT

Grantham Annual Lecture 2011 given by Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London.

A speculative discussion on how economic and financial shifts may affect the communication of climate change and impacts on our everyday lives

Dr Noel Camarcat, EDF Generation, examines the importance and challenges of closing the nuclear fuel cycle in the 2011 Imperial College London-EDF Annual lecture.