Scientists at ETH Zurich have solved a geological mystery that has puzzled researchers for around half a century. Deep inside the Earth, seismic waves suddenly accelerate — and the explanation reveals that […]
The University of Oxford’s Department of Materials celebrated a new chapter in its microscopy facilities with the arrival of a bespoke £3 million Transmission Electron Microscope. The JEOL GrandARM300F instrument will support […]
Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil forest on Earth. Dating back approximately 390 million years, the ancient trees reveal how the arrival of the first forests began transforming not only life […]
“Nature is not the elephant in the room, it’s the huge green scorpion running towards us” – Dr Nicola Ranger, lead author of Oxford study Erosion of natural capital linked with biodiversity loss […]
Researchers at the University of Cambridge say our future global food supply cannot be safeguarded by traditional approaches to improving food production. They suggest state-of-the-art, controlled-environment systems, producing novel foods, should be […]
Record-breaking July 2019 heatwave would have been extremely unlikely without human-induced climate change in many parts of continental Europe, shows a near real-time analysis from World Weather Attribution and partners including Oxford’s […]
Stanford experts discuss the linkages between climate change and health, an area that will be a focus of Stanford-led events at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. It’s no secret […]
Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure – in unprecedented detail – changes in the heights of Earth’s polar […]
Researchers distil twenty years of lessons from clean energy funding into six ‘guiding principles’. They argue that governments must eschew constant reinventions and grant scientists greater influence before our “window of opportunity” […]
Major clusters of summertime thunderstorms in North America will grow larger, more intense, and more frequent later this century in a changing climate, unleashing far more rain and posing a greater threat […]
Climate change could kill more than 500,000 adults in 2050 worldwide due to changes in diets and bodyweight from reduced crop productivity, according to new estimates from the University’s Oxford Martin Future […]
by Princeton University Communications During the past decade, Antarctica’s massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the east, according to […]
by USDA Forest Service -Pacific Northwest Research Station Of the 201 bird and mammal species that call northwest Alaska’s arctic and subarctic region their home, 195 of them–or, roughly, 97 percent–could experience […]
The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) 2015, co-chaired by a NASA researcher, published its latest report which details significant future increases in temperature, precipitation and sea level in the […]
One of the more recent members of The Future Leadership Institute is Mr. Teun Depreeuw. Teun Depreeuw is founder and owner of Muurtuin.be, a company specialized in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining vertical gardens. Click the picture to read more.
FLI logo 2007 - 2011
