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A google earth image showing data from the digital tools identifying where selective-logging has taken place in the rainforest.
Google Earth Image © Airbus 2025 showing changes in the forest canopy detected by satellites at one of the logging concessions in 2023 including the logging detections identified by the new algorithm in red.

New technology helping fight against illegal logging of Peru’s valuable rainforest

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.
Tony Crook looking at the camera.

Professor Tony Crook Legacy Seminar

The School of Geography and Planning is holding an afternoon event to celebrate the contribution of Professor ADH (Tony) Crook CBE to applied housing and planning policy research.
Emeli Hanson

MA International Development student wins prestigious Development Studies Association dissertation prize

We are delighted to announce that Emeli Hanson’s dissertation was awarded the annual Development Studies Association (DSA) prize for best dissertation in the field of international development, development studies and development economics.
A photograph of the Suyuparina Mountain Glacier, in Peru.
Suyuparina Glacier, Peru

Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supply of 90 million people, global policy makers warned

Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the first-ever World Day for Glaciers hosted by UNESCO.
A chart showing the core samples used in the research.

New data on historic sea level rise will help scientists see into the future of global warming

New research on historical sea-level rise will give scientists new knowledge into how global warming will affect the earth’s rapidly melting ice sheets.
Prof Hugh Ellis speaking into a microphone

Hugh Ellis appointed as Visiting Professor

We're very pleased to announce that Hugh Ellis, Director of Policy at the Town and Country Planning Association, has been appointed as Visiting Professor in the School of Geography and Planning.
Professor Paul White at the Big Walk 2015

In loving memory of Professor Paul White

It is with great sadness that we share with you that Professor Paul White, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, passed away in February 2025.
A close up of the remains of a stone tool which humans used 150,000 years ago

Scientists find earliest evidence that our ancestors lived in rainforests 150,000 years ago

The earliest evidence of humans living in tropical rainforests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been published in a new study in Nature by researchers at the University of Sheffield.
Melting ice on a Greenland glacier

Scientists will ‘listen’ to melting ice sheets as part of £81m programme to develop early warning system for climate tipping points

A major new study aims to revolutionise observation of meltwater runoff in Greenland, providing valuable data for climate, ice sheet and ocean models used to simulate climate tipping points.