A Cost-Effective Clean Water Solution from St Andrews
Water quality problems currently affect nearly a billion people. The integrity of both water quality and delivery networks are crucial in addressing these issues.
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Towards Sustainable Land Management in Scotland
Land management can deliver prosperity or fuel inequality: Rehema White is helping to ensure it does the former.
The Future of Public Transport is Fuelled by Hydrogen
The discoveries Irvine and Smith made regarding hydrogen fuel production have been vital to Scottish advances in sustainable public transport.
Going the Distance to Preserve Biodiversity
Developed by researchers at the University, Distance is arguably one of the world’s best tools for monitoring biodiversity.
The St Andrews Think Tank Pioneering Climate Education
The Third Generation Project is the University’s first think tank, and one of the first in the world to focus on climate change education.
Nature-Based Contributions to Carbon Storage
As our efforts to contain global warming ramp up, scientists are developing new ways to understand and harness nature's ability to store carbon.
Curious Travellers: rebuilding the past through citizen science
By crowdsourcing images of destroyed heritage, Professor Richard Bates offers a glimpse into a world as it used to be.
INTRIGUED: Investigating The Role of the North Pacific In Glacial and Deglacial CO2 and Climate
The geological record offers an invaluable window into the different ways earth’s climate can operate. The most recent major changes in earth’s climate, prior to modern climate change, were the Pleistocene ice ages.…
Tree rings unveil temperatures of the last millenium
High on mountains across Alaska, Canada, Europe and Russia near the upper or high latitude tree line, even the hardiest of conifers are at the edge of survival. Their annual rings tell a story of extreme cold that…
International collaboration produces atlas of Europe’s paleoclimate
St Andrews Researcher, Dr Rob Wilson (Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environment Sciences), is involved in an international collaboration led by Professor Edward Cook at Columbia University using tree rings…