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Department of Environment and Geography
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
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👋 Hi Bluesky! We're the Department of #Environment & #Geography at @york.ac.uk and we're setting sail on a new adventure! We work to navigate complex environmental challenges and chart courses toward sustainable futures. Come join our journey!
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Ending 2025 on a high!🌟

So proud to see so many @york.ac.uk researchers recognised for their global impact this year. Huge congrats to YESI Director @proflinds.bsky.social + Resilient Socio-ecological Systems co-lead @rob-marchant.bsky.social for making the list!🌍🌱

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From quantum leaps to improving patient care: Celebrating the achievements of our researchers in driving positive change
The University of York is celebrating a year of exceptional academic achievement, with many of our researchers receiving recognition for being at the forefront of their fields.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Catch up on our sold out lecture with @tonyjuniper.bsky.social.

Tony reflects on environmental legacy, current climate challenges and social inequalities before considering how we might tackle some of these issues.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24-...
LCAB Christmas Lecture - Just Earth by Tony Juniper
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity
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December 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Academics, artists and creative people are being invited to use their imagination and creativity to tackle the climate crisis in an exciting opportunity for 2026 👇🌍
⏰ DEADLINE ALERT: 10 January! ⏰

Want to use play, games, or creativity to tackle the climate crisis? YESI's "Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder!" is calling for your interdisciplinary ideas!

We're looking for academics, artists + creators to join the fun.

SUBMIT NOW: buff.ly/xL1Bxci
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🚨 @york.ac.uk Uni PhD/Masters students! Are you from an ethnically minority background + using AI/ML in your research?

YCEDE has a Conference + Training Fund for you! Apply now to fund conferences or AI training.

DEADLINE: TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026! Apply FAST!

🔗 More info:
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Such dedication to understanding tropical #ecosystem function and using this to guide #management around Doi Tung, northern Thailand. In a 1.4 ha #forest plot 4000 trees and saplings across 200 species take 2 months to measure. #biodiversity @yesiuoy.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Exciting news for the University of York and our department 👇 🌍

A groundbreaking new UKRI-BBSRC initiative, Bio-Boost, has been launched to revolutionise our biological understanding of wastewater treatment..
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Don't miss tonight's Beyond Borders: York Climate Narratives kick-off event 👇🌍
LAST CHANCE! Beyond Borders: York Climate Narratives 2026 Kick-Off is TONIGHT.

Stories engage hearts where science provides facts. Join us to plan a powerful storytelling event (March 2025) featuring voices from climate frontline nations.

📆10 Dec ⏰6 - 8pm 📍UoY

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2026 Project Kick off: Beyond Borders: York Climate Narratives
Seeking budding storytellers and curious souls to bring about an event highlighting perspectives of those in the Global Majority
2026beyondborders.eventbrite.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Well done to our department's @proflinds.bsky.social, sharing timely and important #YorkResearch into land tenure, drought and finance at a special UNCCD CRIC23 joint side event 👇🌍

#drought #finance
Our Director, @proflinds.bsky.social, had a great week representing @desertificationeu.bsky.social at a UNCCD CRIC23 joint side event.

Key discussions on #landtenure, #gender, #drought, #finance + Rio synergies in combating land degradation.

YESI at the heart of global environmental policy! 🌍🌱
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Truly multi functional #landscapes in action around DoiTung (Flag Mountain) in northern Thailand thanks to 30 years of work on #forest #conservation, livelihood support and strong #communities. @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social @yesiuoy.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Learn more about this brilliant #ClimateAction and #CleanAir project 🌍👇
@york.ac.uk (via SEI) is leading a new UK PACT initiative to boost Nigeria's private sector on #ClimateAction + #CleanAir.

A key workshop was held in Abuja this week, providing training to develop finance-ready Climate/Clean Air Action Plans. Advancing low-carbon tech + supporting net-zero goals.
December 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Mahidol University's work in the development of the Bueng Borphet wetland area in #Thailand is quite inspiring! These globally important }wetlands support extensive #fisheries, #rice cultivation and provide vital #flood and #carbon regulation @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @yesiuoy.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Call for abstracts: Learning from Non-Capitalist Economies. Deadline 19th December. Details here: esee2026ghent.be/wp-content/u...

Abstracts will form sessions at the 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in Ghent. More details th thread below:
esee2026ghent.be
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Back from #COP30!🌳

Obroma Agumagu reports:
▶️Science-Policy gap is closing
▶️Climate Justice for frontline regions (Niger Delta focus)
▶️Political will is the missing piece

Read Obroma’s blog on action, accountability, + why York's research matters now.👉 buff.ly/YNgH7hI

@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
Niger Delta, and Global Climate Action
What the Outcomes Mean for the University of York, the Niger Delta, and Global Climate Action
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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Delighted to have attended the Community Without Limits Inclusive Impact Awards last night!

Honoured that our work was shortlisted for the Weaver Award for connecting across boundaries. Huge congrats to all the winners — brilliant recognition for the community builders across our University. 💛✨
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Learn more about sustainable construction in this online discussion next month 👇🌍
Interested in the future of sustainable construction? Don't miss Growing our Homes, 9 Dec, 10–11:30am, an online discussion with York, TU Dublin + SEDA researchers on biobased materials + offsite construction. Dr Katherine Brookfield report on her YESI project SHELTER.🌿🏡

Sign up: buff.ly/VrH1Zkj
Growing our homes - upscaling biobased materials in construction
Join us for the discussion about the use and potential of biobased materials and offsite production in housebuilding.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Demian Hommel, associate professor at Oregon State University, shares how the discipline is critical to create students who think spatially and act ethically: “Geography belongs at the center of that transformation, no longer a legacy subject, but a frontline framework.”
What If Geography Is the Curriculum We Need for the Future? - EdSurge News
A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.”He ...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We have some truly amazing postgraduate research project opportunities on offer at the moment 👇 🌍

www.york.ac.uk/environment-...

#postgraduateresearch #YorkResearch #DEGtogether
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Very refreshing to be at a workshop where people are actively engaged, participating and passionate about the valuing voices tool and how this can help people do #research better…..
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@wellcometrust.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Celebrate #NationalTreeWeek with a special #York event in December 👇🌳
🌳 Happy #NationalTreeWeek!

Join us on 2 Dec for "Storytelling as Method for Inclusive + Reciprocal Research Practices".

Creative outdoor storytelling w/shop (11-12) with Lotte Dijkstra, then an indoor hybrid session (12:30-2).

Bring people + place together! buff.ly/vBfDpac
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Pleased to share our new article, which examines Mozambique's energy transition as multiple, socially/ spatially uneven, and contested -thanks to @marcusjpower.bsky.social for leading this, and Lorraine Howe and Carlos Shenga for your many insights www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Uneven development and the geographies of energy transition in Mozambique
In Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
What is the potential for ponds and their agricultural sustainability in Punjab? It is brilliant to see new research from our department exploring insights from a century of surface water change in the Granary of India published in The Journal of Development Studies this week..
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A chance to join guest speaker Lotte Dijkstra next month, for an outdoor storytelling workshop + hybrid talk on inclusive, place-based research 👇🌍

#York #reciprocalresearch
🌿 Storytelling as Method for Inclusive + Reciprocal Research Practices – Tues 2 Dec, 11:00–14:00 @york.ac.uk

Join guest speaker Lotte Dijkstra for an outdoor storytelling workshop + hybrid talk on inclusive, place-based research.

Free, open to staff + students. Booking here: 🔗 buff.ly/vBfDpac
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Images from a productive Tuesday in our department 👏🌍

#York #sustainability
From shrinking glaciers to management challenges around protected areas in #Brazil - never a dull day @uoyenvironment.bsky.social !
Thanks to Carlos Rocha for sharing insights and ways forward for navigating #sustainability challenges @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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🌱#RetrofitFutures2025 is coming up!

Hear Luke Gooding (SEI York) on how locally rooted One Stop Shops like #YorEnergy can speed up climate action, build trust + make retrofit work for all.

For local authorities, policymakers + practitioners driving York’s 2030 goals.

Sign up: buff.ly/0gORAZX
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
More great news from our department @anikahaque.bsky.social has been selected to work with the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as one of the expert reviewers for the First Order Draft of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities..
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM