Ammonia – why the big stink?

17 September 2018 by Sarah Giles, Hadeel Tabaqchali, Sue Guthrie and Catriona Manville

Today, the Royal Society and RAND Europe have published an evidence synthesis on ‘The impact of ammonia emissions from agriculture…

A glass of wine and some evidence synthesis

22 June 2018 by Professor Christl Donnelly CBE FRS FMedSci and Monika Kreitmair, Science Policy Intern

If headlines are to be believed, a glass of wine a day can make you live longer and cut your…

The trouble with tackling air pollution

9 March 2018 by Emma Woods, Head of Policy, Wellbeing

The air we breathe is rarely out of the news or far from political debate. We see headlines like “London…

Research priorities at the interface of the environment and human health

21 November 2017 by Sarah Giles, Senior Policy Adviser

On 16 and 17 October UK Future Earth and the Royal Society’s Global Environment Research Committee (GERC) hosted a meeting…

Genetic technologies in China provide food for thought

10 November 2017 by Emma Woods, Head of Policy, Wellbeing

A visit to Beijing sheds light on the science, policy and public mood around genetic technologies in agriculture, revealing some…