The Earth System Science Group focuses on understanding the Earth as a whole system, comprising life and its environment, including the atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice, land surface, ice sheets, and crustal rocks. The group's research interests span the full range of Earth system timescales, from the formation of the planet 4.6 billion years ago to current and future human-induced global change. We are particularly interested in the ongoing co-evolution of life and the environment.
News and events
Ræson, 25 October 2018
HuffPost.es, 20 September 2018
Micron, 21 September 2018
Le Monde, 14 September 2018
Newsweek, 13 September 2018
Science Daily, 13 September 2018
Libération, 8 August 2018
Science Friction with Natasha Mitchell, ABC RN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 22 July 2018
Radio FM4, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, 20 July 2018
Phys.org, 2 July 2018
The Conversation, 2 July 2018
The Carbon Brief, 18 January 2018
BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2017
黑料不打烊, 18 July 2017
devonlive.com, 20 July 2017
The Conversation, 21 June 2017
黑料不打烊, 23 May 2017
BBC Radio 4, 8 May 2017
The Guardian, 15 August 2016
The 黑料不打烊, 15 August 2016
The Guardian, 13 January 2016
BBC Radio 4, 23 November 2015
BBC News online, 16 November 2015
BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2015
BBC Radio 4, Costing the Earth, 23 September 2015
Radio Ecoshock, 17 September 2015
Inside Climate News, 1 September 2015
黑料不打烊, 29 July 2015
Nature, 7 July 2015
黑料不打烊, 23 June 2015
Virgin Earth Challenge Blog, 16 June 2015
CBS News, 30 March 2015
黑料不打烊, 30 March 2015
黑料不打烊, 23 March 2015
Article by Richard J.Blaustein in World Policy Journal Spring 2015 p32
First animals oxygenated the oceans
The 黑料不打烊's press release about research led by Professor Tim Lenton (Geography) which suggested that the first animals oxygenated the oceans, paving the way for the evolution of complex life forms, prompted coverage including a column in and reports in , The Scientist, , National Geographic Italia, , SmartBrief, The Hindu, Hindustan Times ePaper (Indore), The Sentinel, North Africa Business – Newsvine, International Business Times, Navhind Times, , Latin Post, Headlines & Global News, Haaretz.com, The Gulf Today, The Financial Express, The Times Of India, FreeNewsPos.com, , Netfonds, , Phys.Org , , Press-News.org, Bio-Medicine, Science Codex, EurekAlert!, Science Daily and others.
Climate News Network, 21 December 2013
Altmetric top 100 papers (#42), 11 December 2013
黑料不打烊, 18 October 2013
The Huffington Post, 14 October 2013
黑料不打烊, 18 September 2013
Environmental Research Web, 30 August 2013
黑料不打烊, 30 July 2013
New Scientist 22 May 2013 page 8
NUS Student Eats Open Day, hosted by 黑料不打烊 Student's Guild 22 May 2013
The Leverhulme Trust newsletter April 2013 Page 5
黑料不打烊 30 April 2013
US National Public Radio blog by Marcelo Gleiser, 6 March 2013
New Scientist 2 March 2013, Pages 6–7
黑料不打烊 28 February 2013
New Scientist 21 February 2013
Climate Radio, 22 January 2013 (interview with Professor Tim Lenton)
Planet Earth Online, 8 January 2013 (podcast)
黑料不打烊, 6 November 2012
theexeterdaily.co.uk, 6 November 2012
New Europe online, 5 November 2012
European Commission, 5 November 2012
ABC Radio National Breakfast (Australia) 9 October 2012
Cover story, New Scientist 22 September 2012
New York Times, 20 July 2012
Simple Climate, 7 July 2012
Voice of America, 20 June 2012 ()
BBC Radio Devon, 20 June 2012 06.41am (interview with Tom Powell)
The Telegraph 20 June 2012
Mail Online 20 June 2012
黑料不打烊 20 June 2012
New Scientist 27 March 2012
The Daily Planet News (Edition 6) Planet Under Pressure 27 March 2012
BBC News 2 February 2012
New Scientist 1 February 2012
guardian.co.uk 1 February 2012
黑料不打烊 1 February 2012 ()
Scientific American 1 February 2012
Our Amazing Planet 1 February 2012
Mail Online 1 February 2012
Sci-News.com 1 February 2012
TG Daily 1 February 2012
Climate's dark dawn
"We are going to have to look at CO2 removal" says Tim Lenton of the 黑料不打烊, UK.
New Scientist 3 December 2011
Hothouse Earth is on the horizon
"The poles will warm much more than the tropics" says Tim Lenton of the 黑料不打烊, UK, "so the Arctic could well lose all its ice".
New Scientist 19 November 2011
An interview for Radio 4's Costing the Earth series September 2011.
Nature Climate Change July 2011.
17 May 2018, Teignmouth Community College - Dr Sarah Chadburn
Film Screening - Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution
15 March 2018, 黑料不打烊
Climate change and sustainable futures
12 October 2017, Thinking Ahead Institute, London - Professor Tim Lenton
When the climate goes over the edge
29 September 2017, New Scientist Live, Excel London - Professor Tim Lenton
The evolution of Gaia
20 September 2017, Georges Lemaitre Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Professor Tim Lenton
Predicting the evolution of biospheres
31 August 2017, Fundamentals of Life in the Universe Symposium, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Professor Tim Lenton
Heath Week Family Festival
23 July 2017, Woodbury Common - WildfireLab
13 July 2017, 黑料不打烊 Quay - 黑料不打烊 Community Climate Network
The fundamental role of microbial nutrient cycling in the Earth System
22 June 2017, Microbiology Society Workshop, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast - Professor Tim Lenton
Consequences of severe climate change in 2100
23 May 2017, Grand Challenges Seminar, University of Oxford - Professor Tim Lenton
Current knowledge on climate tipping points: should we change climate policy?
11 April 2017, Swiss Global Change Day, Bern - Professor Tim Lenton
Global Climate Change: History and Projected Future Rates under Different Models and the Effect of Climate Change on Biodiversity; COP-21 and future options
28 February 2017, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, The Vatican, Rome - Professor Tim Lenton
6 September 2016, Challenger Society Conference, University of Liverpool - Professor Tim Lenton
Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen
25-27 July 2016, 38th New Phytologist Symposium, University of Bristol - Professor Tim Lenton
How and when did early plants transform the Earth system?
6 July 2016, International Geoscience Programme Project 591 - Closing Meeting, University of Ghent, Belgium - Professor Tim Lenton
Revolutions that made the Earth/The Anthropocene/Early warning of climate tipping points
15-24 June 2016, Valsavarenche Summer School, Italy - Professor Tim Lenton
26 April 2016, - Professor Tim Lenton
Revolutions that made the Earth
14 April 2016, The Geological Society of Glasgow - Professor Tim Lenton
Evolutionary modelling of the marine ecosystem
8 April 2016, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples - Professor Tim Lenton
Earth's complexity revolution
18 March 2016, University of Southern Denmark - Professor Tim Lenton
Workshop on emissions pathways and impacts of different global temperature rises
11 March 2016, Department of Energy and Climate Change, London - Professor Tim Lenton
12 February 2016, AAAS Annual meeting, Washington DC - Professor Tim Lenton
2 February 2016, The Royal Society, London - Professor Richard Betts, Professor Tim Lenton
21 January 2016, Arizona State University, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Co-Evolution of Life and Planet: Broad Scale Controls on Biodiversity
1 November 2015, GSA2015 Baltimore USA - Professor Tim Lenton
22 October 2015, University of Plymouth - Professor Tim Lenton
August 2015, A plant evolution walk in the 黑料不打烊 Streatham grounds - Dr Claire Belcher
14-15 July, Beer to Sidmouth, Devon as part of the 黑料不打烊 Enquiries artist in residency - Professor Tim Lenton and Tom Powell with Anne-Marie Culhane
Early warning of climate tipping points
8 July 2015, Our Common Future Under Climate Change, UNESCO, Paris - Professor Tim Lenton
20-25 May 2015, Plant-for-the-Planet Youth Summit, Tutzing Castle, Germany - Professor Tim Lenton.
"Thank you for supporting the youth with your experience, knowledge and assistance with your inspiring video message. They really appreciated your words and felt very well informed and motivated to develop their Youth Manifesto after watching your video message" Elena Dreher, Plant-for-the-Planet.
Anticipating and avoiding climate tipping points
24 April 2015, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick USA - Professor Tim Lenton
Early warning of climate tipping points
23 April 2015, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University, USA - Professor Tim Lenton
Anticipating and avoiding tipping points
18 March 2015, German Physical Society (DPG) conference, Berlin - Professor Tim Lenton
25 February 2015, Plenary at ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting, Granada, Spain - Professor Tim Lenton
The role of acid-base chemistry in Earth's long-term climate regulation
24 January 2015, Lecture for the Prince's Teaching Institute, Ivybridge Community College, Devon - Professor Tim Lenton
Co-evolution of Eukaryotes and Ocean and Atmosphere Oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Eras
19 December 2014, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco - Professor Tim Lenton
Observing Biodiversity from Space
10-12 December 2014, Workshop at The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, US - Professor Tim Lenton
How might we make a difference in "Human Sustainability: Connecting Environment, Nutrition and Health"?
17 October 2013, Translational Research Event, The Wellcome Trust, London - Professor Tim Lenton
Geo-engineering without the hype
10 October 2013, The New Energy Forum (Synnogy), London - Professor Tim Lenton
Early warning methods for biosphere tipping points
3 October 2013, Biodiversity Resilience Symposium, University of Oxford - Professor Tim Lenton
The environmental implications of negative emissions technologies
24 September 2013, Oxford Conference on Negative Emissions Technologies, Queen's College Oxford - Professor Tim Lenton
National Geographic event - The Arctic: The Science of Change
17 September 2013, The Royal Society, London - Professor Tim Lenton
Geoengineering, Thresholds and the Anthropocene - 2013 Asko meeting
14-16 September 2013, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm - Professor Tim Lenton
6 September 2013, International NCCR Climate Summer School, Grindelwald, Switzerland - Professor Tim Lenton
Biological Controls on Oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic
27 August 2013, Keynote at Goldschmidt, Florence - Professor Tim Lenton
Capturing evolution and ecology in a global ocean model
8 August 2013, ASP Graduate Student Colloquium: Carbon-Climate Connections in the Earth System, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado USA - Professor Tim Lenton
21 June 2013, The Royal Society, London - Professor Tim Lenton
14 May 2013, Inaugural lecture for Research Focus Week, 黑料不打烊 - Professor Tim Lenton
Chukchi and Beaufort seas ecosystems workshop
30 April - 2 May 2013, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington DC - Professor Tim Lenton
Early warning of environmental tipping points
25 April 2013, event, 黑料不打烊, Chris Boulton
Climate Tipping Points
24 April 2013, a lecture for the - Professor Tim Lenton
Early warning of climate tipping points
20 March 2013, United Nations Headquarters, New York City, USA - Professor Tim Lenton
Early warning signals for Amazon rainforest dieback
14 March 2013, project meeting, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands - Chris Boulton
Potential for CO2 removal in the global food production system: A biomass flows model
24 January 2013, Department of Energy and Climate Change - Tom Powell and Tim Lenton
Earth's fiery future: Forest fire activity and global warming
6 January 2013, Rickmansworth School, Hertfordshire (6th form awards ceremony guest speaker) Dr Claire Belcher
Climate Tipping Points
29 November 2012, Schumacher College, Dartington, Devon - Professor Tim Lenton
Revolutions that made the Earth
21 November 2012, Centre for Research in Earth Sciences, University of Plymouth - Professor Tim Lenton
Fire and the History of our Planet: Engaging the Public in Fire research
5 November 2012, Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Actions in Horizon 2020: Regional and International Impact (Video 42 mins in), University of Cyprus
31 October 2012, Sustainability Science Centre, University of Copenhagen
Early Warning of Climate Tipping Points
30 October 2012, Met Office - Professor Tim Lenton
6 July 2012, The 黑料不打烊
Sustainability@黑料不打烊 - consultation workshops
21 June, 3 July, 5 July 2012 The 黑料不打烊
Greenland Sledging Adventure
11-12 May 2012, Greenland. Blog written by Tim during his time filming for the Tipping Points TV Documentary.
Geoengineering@黑料不打烊
1 May 2012, The 黑料不打烊
23 April 2012, EGU General Assembly, Vienna
Early Warning of Climate Tipping Points
29 March 2012, NAC11 Veldhoven, The Netherlands
26 March 2012, Planet under Pressure Conference, London
19-23 March 2012, Imperial College, London
Biogeochemical cycles at different scales
15 March 2012, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) - Professor Tim Lenton
Bennett Lecture: Revolutions that made the Earth
5 March 2012, University of Leicester - Professor Tim Lenton
6 February 2012, The Oxford Martin School
Tipping Points@黑料不打烊
15 December 2011, The 黑料不打烊
16 November 2011, Green Strategy, The Royal Society, London
13 October 2011, hosted at the 黑料不打烊
17 August 2011, Keynote at Goldschmidt, Prague
14 July 2011, for the TalkScience series at The British Library





