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Under Pressure: New database aims to improve understanding of the impacts of dams and reservoirs

With an explosion in hydroelectric dam and reservoir building expected over the coming decades, a new tool jointly developed at King’s aims to help...

Idukki dam in Kerala

International Development welcomes new Head of Department

Exciting new era for department as it storms up latest world university rankings

Shanty town

King's announces progress and ambitious targets with updated Climate & Sustainability Action Plan

King’s is delighted to publish the second iteration of our Climate & Sustainability Action Plan to set out our ambitions to address the climate emergency

CSAP front cover image

Research Director appointed for King's Business School's new Centre for Sustainable Business

Centre will provide businesses with practical solutions to transition to more sustainable practices

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King's achieves first-class sustainability ranking

King’s placed fifth in the UK in rankings from People & Planet

King's Guy's building in autumn

Impact on a local, national, and global scale: King's publishes report highlighting contributions towards UN's Sustainable Development Goals

The report details some of the diverse ways King’s work aligns with the SDGs to support the global effort to build a better world.

KCL SDG report

Exchanging ideas on key climate actions needed at COP28

Students, academics, staff and visitors came together to discuss priorities for climate action ahead of this year’s COP28 meeting of world leaders.

Panel and audience at the SSPP COP28 event Nov 2023

Celebrating the King's community driving forward sustainability

Staff, students and alumni came together at the King’s Climate & Sustainability Awards 2023 to celebrate the efforts of those helping to make King’s a more...

Group photo taken at the sustainability awards 2023 showing about 100 people holding up SDG boards.

One year of King's Volunteering

As we mark one year since the launch of King’s Volunteering, we look back at how students and staff have volunteered and celebrate their achievements.

Gardening-Volunteering 26 - Yellow (2)

King's joins research network on ecology and evolutionary biology

Researchers now have access to the Centre for Ecology & Evolution, a network of scientists looking to foster research collaboration in these fields.

sustainable environment leaf plant

Wastewater microfibres contributes to potential pollution on Kenyan coastline

Researchers from King’s and Northumbria University found that microfibres released from washing clothes may pose problems for East African ecosystems

Laundry cloth windy fabric blowing

New book argues for a critical, social understanding of water to solve global challenges

The book by academics from the King’s Water Centre explores how social practices and geometries of power shape the flow of water.

Hydropower Dam

Brazilian conservation policy less effective on private lands

A policy designed to conserve forests has been less effective on privately-owned land in the Amazon due to an exemption for small property owners, leading to...

Deforestation in the Amazon

New sensors set to determine air quality and the impact of fires in Southeast Asia

King’s researchers have installed a network of remote sensors in Upper Southeast Asia to collect ground-level data at the largest scale yet, on how landscape...

Remote air quality sensor installed by King's researchers and local partners in Southe

Boost your employability this summer with an internship

10 part-time paid internships offer King’s students the opportunity to experience life in a start-up.

A group of young entrepreneurs.

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