Grantham Scholars have been in Zimbabwe to teach schoolchildren about the importance of sustainable living. Second year PhD students Tinashe Mawodza and Patience Muchada led a session for 40 science and geography students at Macheke High School. The pair introduced the class to the work of […]

Dr Philip Powell from the Department of Economics at the University of Sheffield writes about how our attitudes to food may be stopping us from adopting more eco-friendly eating habits. Philip’s work on this subject is supported by the Grantham Centre’s GO […]

A $1 million funding boost will help scientists understand how plants protect themselves from excess light, providing new insights that could improve global food security. The funding from the Human Frontiers Science Programme (HFSP) will support research by Dr Matt Johnson from Sheffield’s Department of Molecular […]

Grantham Scholar Magdalena Matysek has been in Rome this week to present at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon. The event began on Tuesday and closes today, with up to 500 delegates from across the world […]

The energy and resource use in one of the UK’s biggest cities will be analysed by a new £1.8 million centre at the University of Sheffield. Researchers at the Urban Flows Observatory will create a model of Sheffield’s energy and […]

Our Chief Research Adviser, Professor Peter Horton FRS, is one of the authors behind a new study in Nature Plants that maps out the environmental cost of a loaf of bread. Here, he explains how we can mitigate the environmental damage […]

– Ammonium nitrate fertiliser used in wheat cultivation contributes 43 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in a loaf of bread – 100 million tonnes of fertiliser used globally every year – Findings vital to providing solutions to global food […]

Increasing the water table could help to slow down global warming, boost crop yields, and preserve peat soils according to a new study. The research, led by scientists from the University of Sheffield, found increasing the level below which the […]

The world’s first catalytic poem has been removed from the exterior wall of the Alfred Denny Building at the University of Sheffield, three years after it was installed. In Praise of Air was an original poem written by Simon Armitage […]

Four University of Sheffield science researchers, including Grantham Scholar Chris Dutton, have won the nationwide Environment YES innovation competition, beating off challengers from universities across the UK by pitching an idea for fully recyclable paper cups. The Sheffield team members were Jess Dunn […]