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Science, Maths & Technology
Climate change and the built environment
The importance of retrofitting our existing buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stay comfortable in future climates.
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Nature & Environment
My career goal: Environment
Interested in veterinary or agricultural work, or more industrial work like food farming and sustainable energy? Find out how you can gather skills and carry out work that will have a real impact on our relationship with the environment.
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Nature & Environment
A Letter to Earth
This is a wonderful Earth anthem that I came across as an environmentally conscious teenager growing up in India in the 1990s.
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Nature & Environment
A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
How personal awakening can help societal transformation.
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Nature & Environment
TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Why might it not be science that holds the key to combatting climate change?
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Nature & Environment
Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Arwen Bailey speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about systems in agricultural research.
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Education & Development
How can education contribute to sustainability?
What teachers on the Open University MA Education are doing.
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Nature & Environment
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Delegates attending the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November 2021 were entrusted with leading the global response to humanity’s greatest challenge: how can we stop the world from heating to the point it becomes uninhabitable for future generations?
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History & The Arts
Learning from the past with historic buildings
How can we work with our building traditions to create designs that will last?
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Nature & Environment
Deep oceans can help us understand our climate
Carbon isotopes found in deep water fossils offer an insight into deep ocean circulation says PhD student, Andrew McIntyre.
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Nature & Environment
Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...
Within the comfort of my office and a computer model, Andreas Wernecke explains his research at The Open University.
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Nature & Environment
When did the largest ocean current on Earth start?
How can fossil fish teeth allow us to understand past deep ocean circulation? PhD student, Sophie Alexander, explains...