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Sally Marsh
July 2025
A photo of a British countryside landscape of fields and hedgerows at dusk

environmental SCIENTIST | Are we measuring what matters? | June 2025


Sally Marsh ponders whether we can apply metrics to the beauty of nature.


Metrics have come to dominate environmental policy in the 21st century, but it has not always been like...

Ethny Childs
July 2025
Photograph of large tree in field with spring wildflowers

Enabling interdisciplinary collaboration is vital to unlocking a sustainable society and tackling the complex, interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution. It is widely acknowledged that no single sector can address these in isolation, and there is...

Joseph Lewis
July 2025
Wildflowers on a beach

Joseph Lewis is Policy Lead at the Institution of Environmental Sciences, working to promote the use of the environmental sciences in decision making. Joseph leads the delivery of the IES Policy Programme, standing up for the voice of science, scientists, and the natural world...

Joseph Lewis
July 2025
Engineers looking at wind turbine

Joseph Lewis is Policy Lead at the Institution of Environmental Sciences, working to promote the use of the environmental sciences in decision making. Joseph leads the delivery of the IES Policy Programme, standing up for the voice of science, scientists, and the natural world...

Ethny Childs and Amy Bond
July 2025
Stone bridge over a river in Exmoor

The Foundation for Water Research (FWR)’s Sustainable Wastewater Management Technical Panel recently held a roundtable discussion exploring the topic of healthy rivers, chaired by Oliver Grievson, FWR Vice Chair, who was joined by a range of professionals with expertise in the sector. The...

Joseph Lewis
June 2025
A view of Humber Bridge from above

Joseph Lewis is Policy Lead at the Institution of Environmental Sciences, working to promote the use of the environmental sciences in decision making. Joseph leads the delivery of the IES Policy Programme, standing up for the voice of science, scientists, and the natural world...

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