Topic Climate Change

Last updated: 5 November 2025

BSc (Hons) Environmental Science with Foundation Year

Students conducting research on Dartmoor.

Build your skills and knowledge on this new four-year course (incorporating a foundation year).

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Last updated: 5 November 2025

University Doctoral Landscape Award (UDLA)

Logos representing various themes over a landscape of green tree covered hills

Advancing innovations in response to climate change and health inequalities

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Last updated: 5 November 2025

COP28 University of Plymouth Exhibit

Dubai skyline at night

1 December 2023

Why does the ocean matter in climate negotiations?

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Last updated: 5 November 2025

MSc Data Science and Environmental Intelligence

Environmental technology concept. Sustainable development goals. SDGs.

MSc Data Science and Environmental Intelligence at Plymouth combines data science with cutting-edge skills in environmental and marine technology to provide an innovative curriculum and an outstanding foundation for your future career.

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Published: 5 November 2025

Predicted CO2 levels cause marked increase in forest temperatures

A research site at the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research Free Air CO2 Enrichment (BIFoR-FACE) facility in Staffordshire, England

Researchers used cutting-edge thermal imagining technologies to examine how trees responded to changing environmental conditions

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Last updated: 29 October 2025

Studying the seas, from Plymouth to Japan

Dr Ben Harvey on location, wearing a diving suit

Chart Dr Ben Harvey’s journey from the South West to the Far East and discover his passion for marine ecology along the way

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Published: 27 October 2025

University heightens resilience of healthcare to climate change

Launch of the South East Asia Health Policy Network in the House of Commons

The South East Asia Health Policy Network has been launched in the House of Commons

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Last updated: 22 October 2025

What is ocean acidification? Find out how research at Plymouth is tackling this global carbon dioxide problem

Ocean acidification

Explore the science behind falling ocean pH and the impact this has on marine ecosystem balance

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Last updated: 13 October 2025

What are invasive species? Are they always bad for our ecosystems?

Close-up view of a common lionfish (Pterois miles) courtesy of Shutterstock, Copyright: Henner Damke

Discover how the University is researching the possible benefits – and not just the negative impact – non-indigenous species can bring to new environments

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Last updated: 13 October 2025

Seven Worlds, One Planet

An Andean bear scans the cloud forest in Ecuador in search of fruit (Photography: Chadden Hunter. Copyright: BBC NHU)

Our links to Sir David Attenborough's series include providing scientific and medical advice to the presenter and production team

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