NERC has invested £25 million in a host of high risk, high reward research projects to tackle critical environment challenges.
The 44 projects cover the full spectrum of environmental science including geology, atmospheric science, biodiversity and ecology.
The research will, for example:
- improve our understanding of volcanic activity such as eruptions and lava flows
- age the Earth’s solid inner core
- investigate historic mass extinction events
- predict future changes to carbon storage and biodiversity of the amazon rainforest
- study new microbes capable of consuming the powerful methane greenhouse gas
- establish which species are the most and least resilient to environmental changes
