Research by scientists from University of Southampton and the Central University of Jharkhand and has shown the first COVID-19 lockdown in India led to an improvement in air quality and a reduction in land surface temperature in major urban areas across the country.
Daffodils in December and swallows in February - how climate change is sending our seasons haywire
Joe Shute, the Telegraph’s resident weather watcher, reports on how climate change is sending our seasons
haywire
3 June 2021 • 11:05am
Joe Shute at Stanage Edge in the Peak District
Credit: India Hobson
Among my most treasured books is a Ladybird series published in the early 1960s and entitled What To Look For. Written by the biologist Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson and illustrated by renowned wildlife artist Charles Tunnicliffe, each book is devoted to a different season and portrays a world in perfect balance: weather, wildlife and people all in equilibrium.
Rachel Mills
Biography
Rachel will join the University of Sussex in August 2021 from the University of Southampton. As Provost, she will be Sussex’s most senior academic, overseeing all Schools.
Rachel has a distinguished scientific record and has carried out a wide range of leadership roles at Southampton, where she is currently Dean of the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences and is a member of the university’s executive.
After completing her PhD and postdoctoral work at Cambridge, Rachel joined Southampton in 1993. Rachel is an oceanographer who works on the chemistry of the deep seafloor and its impact on life in the sea. She has led research expeditions using submersibles and remotely operated vehicles to remote and deep, unexplored parts of the ocean.