Earth, Climate and Environmental Change

About this programme

Through science and in everyday life we understand that climate change is happening all around us. As our planet continues to warm up and climate patterns change, bringing extreme and unpredictable weather, environments will become hotter, drier or wetter, and the natural resources we rely upon will become increasingly threatened and all life on Earth will be severely impacted. Fieldwork is the glue that brings together all aspects of the taught programme in Earth Sciences, as well as providing a chance for staff and students to get to know each other. The fieldwork programme is designed to provide progressive training throughout your degree. We sometimes make changes to our courses to improve your experience. If this happens, we’ll let you know as soon as possible. With the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the recent COP26, a seismic societal shift towards issues related to sustainability and climate change is taking place globally. The next generation of geoscientists are now required to understand the complex interrelations between human activities and a changing Earth system. With this module, students will explore key themes at the core of human-Earth interaction such as anthropogenic climate change, geohazards, environmental pollution, and sustainable exploitation of energy resources and energy-critical elements. Understanding the causes and trajectory of climatic change is an important task. In this module, students will learn about three interconnected phenomena: the global climate system and the atmospheric and oceanic processes that regulate the climate sys