Skip to content Accessibility statement

News

Discover how our department is shaping a sustainable future.

Our news highlights groundbreaking research, student achievements, and faculty expertise that are making a real difference in addressing urgent environmental challenges. Each story represents a step forward in our journey to create a world we want to live in.

News

29 June 2026

York is ranked 16th in the UK for Geography and Environmental Science in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2027).

News

23 June 2026

The first in a new series of E&G Research Conversations - informal sessions designed to surface the research connections that cut across our department.

News

29 May 2026

Scientists have warned that understanding the complex make-up of the world’s peatlands is an underestimated climate battle.

News

22 May 2026

New research reveals that the 4,000-year-old city of Mohenjo-daro defied the ‘rules’ of history by becoming more equal as it became more successful.

News

16 December 2025

A groundbreaking new UKRI-BBSRC initiative, Bio-Boost, has been launched to revolutionise our biological understanding of wastewater treatment (WWT) and train the next generation of scientists to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing society.

News

14 November 2025

Harmful levels of indoor air pollution have been discovered in UK homes, with families from deprived areas and ethnic minority backgrounds facing the highest levels of exposure, according to a new study from the University of York.

News

12 November 2025

A new study argues that habituation - the process of people or animals becoming used to something, so that they no longer find it unpleasant or think it is a threat - is a much more complex two-way process than scientists have assumed.

News

6 November 2025

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Robert Marchant and colleagues an €10 million Synergy Grant to study the effects of climate change on mountain ecosystems and societies in East Africa.