Manasa Sharma Manasa Sharma, Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at the University of East Anglia, is researching climate adaptation strategies for smallholder farmers in India. She is developing a temporal climate analog model to assess past impacts and future risks as a pilot study in South India and plans to conduct fieldwork and surveys to document impacts and adaptation approaches. By analyzing crop yields, weather data, and policies, she aims to understand future risk and how agricultural practices and policies have evolved over time. Manasa is passionate about interdisciplinary research ..read more

Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Virginia Tech. Writing in the journal Science, Prof Robert Nicholls of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA and Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech and United Nations University for Water, Environment and Health, Ontario, highlight the importance of a new research paper analysing satellite data that accurately and consistently maps land movement across China. While they say in their comment article that consistently measuring subsidence is a great ach ..read more

Dr. Angela Minas of the Tyndall Centre in Manchester University has won a British Academy ODA International Interdisciplinary Research Project grant. The project, Ahon: Stories and imaginaries of resilience and progress in a changing climate, will draw on insights from the Philippines to offer a counter-narrative to ‘Northern’ dominated understandings of climate resilient development. I will be Principal Investigator to an exciting partnership with my fellow Filipino researchers based in the University of the Philippines, Lingnan University Hong Kong, and Sydney University in Austral ..read more

An overview of global wildfire activity and impacts for last year reveals the parts of the world that saw a record amount of area burned. California experienced a fairly quiet wildfire season in 2023, particularly compared to recent record years in 2020 and 2021. However other places, such as Canada, saw unprecedented wildfire seasons and impacts to humans, which the authors say were undoubtedly exacerbated by climate change. The overview, conducted by researchers from the US, Canada, and the UK – including the University of East Anglia (UEA) – is published today as part of a special iss ..read more

Clara Kubler Clara Kubler is a second-year Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar, member of the 3S research group and is the Early Careers Representative at Tyndall UEA. Her research explores how political identities influence climate and environmental policy support and engagement in the UK, with a specific interest in negative partisanship. With a background in environmental psychology and an interdisciplinary research approach, she is conducting national survey analyses, interviews, and experiments to deepen our understanding of what negative partisanship is, how it is experienced, and how it ..read more

New research shows that Brazil achieved “positive environmental strides” in the Amazon in 2023, with the number of deforestation fires at a five-year low. Data from Brazil’s national fire monitoring system reveals that last year saw a 22% reduction in deforestation rates and a 16% decline in total fire counts compared with 2022, attributed to renewed environmental policy implementation under a new government led by president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. However, despite progress, deforestation remains above the target, and forest wildfires in old-growth Amazonian forests surged by 152% in 2023 ..read more

One in 50 people living in two dozen coastal cities in the United States could experience significant flooding by 2050, according to new research involving the University of East Anglia. The study, published in the journal Nature, combines satellite-obtained measurements of sinking land, also known as subsidence, with sea-level rise projections and tide charts to provide a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. Led by Virginia Tech, in the US, it projects that in the next three decades as many as 500,000 people ..read more

Tyndall UEA are advertising for a Senior Research Associate to contribute to a new EU project developing a cross-sectoral framework for socio-economic resilience to climate and extreme events in Europe (CROSS-EU). The post holder will be responsible for identifying, extracting and collating climate hazard and climate risk data to create a new harmonised database for Europe. The database will be used within the wider project to assess climate and socio-economic risks in different regions and case studies, and to enhance the modelling of mitigation and adaptation strategies. For further details ..read more

A major research programme led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Tyndall Centre’s Prof. Rachel Warren and Dr. Jeff Price has quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases.  A collection of eight studies – all focusing on Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana and India – shows that the risks of drought, flooding, declines in crop yields, and loss of biodiversity and natural capital greatly increase for each additional degree of global warming.  The overarching picture for the acc ..read more

Sophie Day of the School of Environmental Sciences and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia has been recognized for her work in coastal adaptation and coastal transition. Sophie  won the Partnership of the Year at the UEA Innovation and Impact Awards.  Sophie’s work has e been instrumental in the development of the Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme (CTAP), the £15 million North Norfolk initiative known as Coastwise, to address the local challenges posed by coastal erosion. Coastwise, funded by Department for Environment, Food & Ru ..read more