Record number of staff win Green Impact Awards in 2025
165 teams celebrated for their achievements at the Sustainability Open Forum and Green Impact Awards ceremony.
- Published: 15 July 2025
News from BIFoR
All the news from the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR)
Forest trees and microbes choreograph their hunt for a ‘balanced diet’ under elevated CO2
In conditions mimicking a future atmosphere, 180-year-old English oaks traded-off “do it yourself” ways to access nutrients with “outsourcing” to soil microbes
- Published: 14 July 2025
Landmark Study on Future of European Forest Monitoring
A landmark scientific paper is calling for a major overhaul in how Europe monitors the health and sustainability of its forests
- Published: 30 May 2025
University Joins New National Centre to Protect UK Forests
University of Birmingham Joins New National Centre to Protect UK Forests
- Published: 22 May 2025
New Horizon-Funded Project FutureForests Tackles European Forests' Responses Under Global Change
New Horizon-Funded Project FutureForests Tackles European Forests' Responses Under Global Change
- Published: 7 May 2025
Universities sign UK-Borneo strategic forestry research partnership
New agreement sees Birmingham climate change experts working with their counterparts in Borneo to explore the potential for major forest experiments.
- Published: 24 March 2025
Bringing Brazil to Birmingham with science and arts on campus
Brazilian Carnaval is coming to campus – a celebration of science, music, dance and more as the University prepares for this year’s COP30 environmental summit.
- Published: 29 January 2025
Schools need to inspire and educate climate change researchers – here’s how we can help
Over the last year there have been many records set in the weather patterns in the UK and across the world, due to increased levels of greenhouse gases.
- Published: 22 October 2024
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