This project involved professional storytellers and a climate change researcher facilitating young people in developing storytelling performances that communicate lived experiences of climate adaptation from around the world. We worked with young people of working class and ethnic minority backgrounds from West Yorkshire, whose voices…
This is a handbook for students that focuses on providing resources for coping with climate grief and eco-anxiety, demonstrating accessible facts about climate science, and equipping young people with the tools they need to take action in order to make change. Home
How the Tech Community is Combating Climate Change + Free Resources and GitHub Projects According to an article from Time magazine, 2020 was the year of climate extremes. Numerous research studies have shown that many of the natural events that occurred in 2020 would not have…
The Climate through time poster and online map illustrates the links between our planet’s changing climate and the different rocks that formed as environmental conditions varied through geological time. Earth’s climate has changed throughout the billions of years of our planet’s geological history. Evidence for past…
The free mobile apps listed below allow volunteers to quickly access information ‘on-the-go’. Using GPS and camera technology embedded in smart phones, these apps allow citizen scientist volunteers to collect verifiable records in the field. These records are used by our scientists to further our…
BioResiliance in Columbia. This video highlights the importance of the water system, where water comes from and how the paramos are essential for producing drinking water for the local population. Other examples of engagement activities can be found here. Made in collaboration with NERC
Researchers from the Colombia BioResilience project worked with an artist/animator to develop a short animation that communicates information about the physical and social science from the BioResilience project in Colombia. The animation is posted on YouTube and was presented at the Hay Festival on the…
Towards environmental reconciliation in Páramo land in Boyacá: resolving ecosystem trade-offs in post-conflict spaces This project integrates a group of multi-disciplinary scholars from environmental and veterinary sciences, cultural and historical geography, anthropology, economics and design, working with an understanding of the social and ecological nature…
BIFoR has catalysed some game-changing education initiatives at the University of Birmingham. In collaboration with the University of Birmingham’, Higher Education Futures Institute (HEFI) we have developed a number of teaching materials around the water and carbon cycles which are being embedded both the in…
Discover different climates from all around the world with this series of short animated videos on different aspects of climate science, with sections led by scientists. Visit Marina Ventura’s Climate Explorers Made in collaboration with NERC