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Joseph Lewis
September 2025
Mangrove forest at Urauchi river representing a blurred line between land and sea

Joseph Lewis is Head of Policy 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...

Joseph Lewis
September 2025
Twisting river meandering through the rainforest

Joseph Lewis is Head of Policy 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...

Joseph Lewis
September 2025
UK Parliament with a bus passing over the River Thames

Joseph Lewis is Head of Policy 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...

Joseph Lewis
August 2025
water with chemicals

Joseph Lewis is Head of Policy 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...

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...

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