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Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing (2025)
Journal Article
Clare, N., Kearsey, J., & French, S. (in press). Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing. Radical Housing Journal,

This paper explores the potentials and challenges of organising in (and at times against-and-beyond) social housing. Drawing on extended research across the UK with a range of tenants, activists, and housing staff we illustrate the need for fine-grai... Read More about Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing.

Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation (2025)
Journal Article
Dugerdil, L., Peyron, O., Violle, C., Joannin, S., Ménot, G., Denelle, P., Bruelheide, H., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Hatim, M. Z., Gholizadeh, H., Dolezal, J., Pillar, V. D., Shaltout, K. H., Schrodt, F., & Garnier, E. (2025). Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation. Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15100

Aim
Pollen assemblages are widely used to infer paleoenvironment features, aiming at reconstructing both past climates and biomes. However, the functional link between environmental conditions and pollen assemblages is not straightforward and requir... Read More about Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation.

The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery (2025)
Journal Article
Decker Sparks, J. L., Somers, N., Williams, C., O'Brien, M., & Jackson, B. (2025). The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery. Marine Policy, 175, Article 106629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106629

Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) are attempting to manage the labor dimensions of social responsibility through non-binding mechanisms that directly contradict the tenets of worker-centered approaches. Using the UK Nephrops FIP as a case study, we... Read More about The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery.

Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns (2025)
Report
Ahmed, S., Ayangunna, R., Barrow, J., Jackson, B., Ojo, T., Ojo, K., Parker, P., West, P., & Wright, N. (2025). Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns. https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Triple_Threats_Co-ordinated_and_collective_actions_to_address_health_work_and_climate_concerns/28315241: Rights Lab Survivor Research Advisory Board, University of Nottingham

The paper explores three priority threats upon health and work, resulting from climate change identified through a series of collaborative workshops with lived experience survivors of modern slavery. Areas highlighted which require collaborative acti... Read More about Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns.

Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance (2025)
Journal Article
Cox, S., Morris, J., & Colven, E. (2025). Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance. City, https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2025.2455233

In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise ‘solutions’ to climate change. But what must happen for private finance to stand at the centre of urban climate... Read More about Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance.

It is time to improve our research design, reporting and interpretation of sex and gender in exercise science and sports medicine research (2025)
Journal Article
Hagstrom, A. D., Parsons, J. L., Nimphius, S., Jordan, M. J., Coen, S. E., & Norton, R. (2025). It is time to improve our research design, reporting and interpretation of sex and gender in exercise science and sports medicine research. British Journal of Sports Medicine, Article bjsports-2024-109342. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2024-109342

Enhanced phosphorus weathering contributed to Late Miocene cooling (2025)
Journal Article
Zhong, Y., Li, Z., Shi, X., Isson, T., Yu, J., Kender, S., Liang, Z., Swann, G. E., Pullen, A., Weber, M. E., Du, J., Larrasoaña, J. C., Zhang, J., Song, Y., González, F. J., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Li, H., Zhang, Q., Zhao, D., Cao, W., …Liu, Q. (2025). Enhanced phosphorus weathering contributed to Late Miocene cooling. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 1124. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56477-7

Late Miocene climate evolution provides an opportunity to assess Earth’s climate sensitivity to carbon cycle perturbation under warmer-than-modern conditions. Despite its relevance for understanding the climate system, the driving mechanisms underlyi... Read More about Enhanced phosphorus weathering contributed to Late Miocene cooling.

Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes (2025)
Journal Article
Vanderstraeten, S., & Searle, A. (2025). Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes. Theory, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241304719

Emergent research in metagenomics has unveiled large quantities of previously unknown and unclassified prokaryotic DNA. As these prokaryotes constitute the vast majority of microbial life in environmental samples, some microbiologists and commentator... Read More about Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes.

Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering (2025)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2025). Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering. Remote Sensing, 17(1), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17010130

The location of a pixel in feature space is a function of its thematic composition. The latter is central to an image classification analysis, notably as an input (e.g., training data for a supervised classifier) and/or an output (e.g., predicted cla... Read More about Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering.

Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (2025)
Journal Article
Kuta, A. A., Grebby, S., & Boyd, D. S. (2025). Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Applied Sciences, 15(1), Article 338. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15010338

The widespread oil extraction in the Niger Delta and the impacts on different types of vegetation are poorly understood due to lack of ground access. This study aims to determine the impact of oil spills on vegetation in the Niger Delta using a Lands... Read More about Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.

Material Cycles, Environmental Emissions, and Ecological Risks of Bisphenol A (BPA) in China and Implications for Sustainable Plastic Management (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, J., Chan, F. K. S., Johnson, M. F., Chan, H. K., Cui, Y., Chen, J., & Chen, W.-Q. (2025). Material Cycles, Environmental Emissions, and Ecological Risks of Bisphenol A (BPA) in China and Implications for Sustainable Plastic Management. Environmental Science and Technology, 59(3), 1631-1646. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c09876

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a high-production-volume plastic chemical, with ∼98% of its usage in China allocated to producing polycarbonate and epoxy resin, and its fugitive release threatens ecosystems. However, knowledge of its anthropogenic cycles, envir... Read More about Material Cycles, Environmental Emissions, and Ecological Risks of Bisphenol A (BPA) in China and Implications for Sustainable Plastic Management.

Rebalancing River Lateral Connectivity: An Interdisciplinary Focus for Research and Management (2024)
Journal Article
Mason, R. J., Johnson, M. F., Wohl, E., Russell, C. E., Olden, J. D., Polvi, L. E., Rice, S. P., Hemsworth, M. J., Sponseller, R. A., & Thorne, C. R. (2025). Rebalancing River Lateral Connectivity: An Interdisciplinary Focus for Research and Management. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 12(1), Article e1766. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1766

Lateral connectivity between rivers and terrestrial landscapes is critical for both river and landscape health. Due to widespread anthropogenic degradation of riverscapes, river management is aiming to connect rivers to floodplains, riparian zones, a... Read More about Rebalancing River Lateral Connectivity: An Interdisciplinary Focus for Research and Management.

Exploring soil erosion in the lake basins of Michoacán, Mexico: From sediment cores to conservation policies (2024)
Journal Article
Aguilera Lara, J., & Metcalfe, S. E. (2024). Exploring soil erosion in the lake basins of Michoacán, Mexico: From sediment cores to conservation policies. Journal of Quaternary Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3676

Understanding soil erosion, its history and links to potential drivers such as land use (particularly agriculture and deforestation), different cultural perspectives and climate change are crucial for the development of effective management and conse... Read More about Exploring soil erosion in the lake basins of Michoacán, Mexico: From sediment cores to conservation policies.

Land use, hydroclimate and damming influence organic carbon sedimentation in a flood pulse wetland, Malaysia (2024)
Journal Article
McGowan, S., Lacey, J. H., Engels, S., Boyle, J., Briddon, C., Leng, M. J., Moorhouse, H. L., Panizzo, V., & Shafiq, M. (2024). Land use, hydroclimate and damming influence organic carbon sedimentation in a flood pulse wetland, Malaysia. Journal of Quaternary Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3672

Water bodies located in floodplains and tropical forests are known to be important carbon stores, but many are subjected to intensive pressures from damming, land use and climate changes. Sedimentary records preserve long-term archives for understand... Read More about Land use, hydroclimate and damming influence organic carbon sedimentation in a flood pulse wetland, Malaysia.

Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies? (2024)
Book Chapter
Searle, A., Giraud, E. H., Turnbull, J., & Anderson-Elliott, H. (2024). Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies?. In J. Turnbull, A. Searle, H. Anderson-Elliott, & E. Haifa Giraud (Eds.), Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds (1-28). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170354.00007

Digital technologies increasingly mediate relations between humans and non-humans in a range of contexts including environmental governance, surveillance, and entertainment. Combining approaches from more-than-human and digital geographies as well as... Read More about Introduction: What is Digital Ecologies?.

Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities (2024)
Journal Article
Hähn, G. J. A., Damasceno, G., Alvarez-Davila, E., Aubin, I., Bauters, M., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bjorkman, A. D., Bonari, G., Botta-Dukát, Z., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Ćušterevska, R., de Gasper, A. L., De Sanctis, M., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., El-Sheikh, M. A., Finckh, M., …Bruelheide, H. (2024). Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02589-0

Plant communities are composed of species that differ both in functional traits and evolutionary histories. As species’ functional traits partly result from their individual evolutionary history, we expect the functional diversity of communities to i... Read More about Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities.

The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns (2024)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Sparks, J. D., Foody, G. M., Girindran, R., Gosling, S., Trodd, Z., Bhriain, L. H., & Rodriguez-Huerta, E. (2024). The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns. Sustainable Development, https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3272

The impacts of climate change-induced heat stress on workers are most prevalent in sectors with decent work deficits and this requires consideration for sustainable development. This paper focuses on the informal economy of brick kilns in India, a se... Read More about The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns.

Human activity controls nitrogen loads in a large sub-tropical delta from 2000 to 2020 (2024)
Journal Article
Do, N. T., Trinh, D. A., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., Runeckles, H., Henderson, A. C., Large, A. R., & Hackney, C. R. (2025). Human activity controls nitrogen loads in a large sub-tropical delta from 2000 to 2020. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 213, Article 108021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108021

Nitrogen (N) is crucial for agricultural yield, but its overuse in fertilisation and presence in uncollected wastewater from urbanization causes eutrophication. The Red River Delta in Vietnam is facing rapidly increasing water quality issues. Here, M... Read More about Human activity controls nitrogen loads in a large sub-tropical delta from 2000 to 2020.