Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures

Phosphorus is at the centre of a looming crisis in food security. Grantham Scholar Niall Bradshaw explains the threat of finite phosphate reserves as he captures the discussion he led at Journal Club. Why is phosphorus important? Phosphorus is a nutrient that’s essential to all life on earth. Since the […]

Our Associate Director and Grantham supervisor Colin Osborne publishes ground breaking research on C4 photosynthesis. The study, which is the […]

Grantham Scholar Bowy den Braber introduces 2 articles about the impact and conservation. Here, he talks us through the debates […]

Many ways of improving crop yields can be discovered when scientists understand underlying processes in plants. Grantham Scholar Tinashe Mawodza […]

Diets need to change if we are to live more sustainably. But exactly what is a sustainable diet? Grantham Scholar […]

When compared to the silicon solar cells used in many photovoltaic devices, organic solar cells (based on polymer technology) appear […]

Grantham Scholar Magdalena Matysek introduced the Grantham Scholars to various geoengineering approaches. In particular they talked about the pros and […]

Is the only way to stop the biodiversity crisis to put a value on nature? Some argue it is. However, […]

Tropical cyclones in the Philippines are more extreme and cause greater amounts of devastation, a new study from Grantham Scholar […]

Grantham Scholar Katie Sumner, led a discussion on the problems energy demand poses for renewable energy. Here, she asks whether […]