Carbon pricing can help European countries to raise revenue and reduce their fiscal deficits more effectively than other taxes, according to a new report published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy.

Worker bumblebees and their colonies are being harmed by a mixture of  pesticides. This is the finding from the first study of how bees are affected by a combination of chemicals to which they are commonly exposed in the field.

The research by Dr Richard Gill and Dr Nigel Raine at Royal Holloway, University of London is part of the LWEC accredited Insect Pollinators Initiative.

A new coastal research framework has been published to complement the UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Research Strategy led by LWEC. The Coastal Research, Development and Dissemination (CoRDDi) Framework will provide  more detail about our coastal needs over the next five years.

Dr Sari Kovats, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Environmental Health Research (SEHR) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been appointed as the Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) Partnership’s Health Fellow.