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'Communicate smarter' about climate change action

Published
10 November 2022
Categories
Society & Politics | Science | Environment

Policy analysts and planners will be able to “communicate smarter” about climate change action by using a new online decision-support tool which has been launched at COP27.

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Communities needing help to put food on tables

Published
8 November 2022
Categories
Health

Communities across the UK which need help to access affordable food have been identified in a groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of Leeds.

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Scientists and engineers champion building ventilation

Published
8 November 2022
Categories
Working with business | Science | Global | Health

A campaign promoting the role of better building ventilation to support health and wellbeing has been launched by a coalition of scientists and engineering bodies.

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New materials to drive UK economic growth

Published
7 November 2022
Categories
Working with business | Science | Technology

The Government has announced a £95 million boost to develop the new materials of the future through research at the Henry Royce Institute, a consortium of nine institutions including Leeds.

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Negotiating on behalf of the UK

Published
4 November 2022
Categories
Alumni

Acting on behalf of the UK in climate negotiations, Leeds alum Kate Fearnyough travelled to COP27 hoping the conference would accelerate mitigation action around the world.

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Magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation

Published
3 November 2022
Categories
Science

A peculiar property of the Earth’s magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new scientific assessment.

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Reassessing Sir Herbert Read

Published
2 November 2022
Categories
Alumni

The Henry Moore Foundation's new research season features former Leeds student Sir Herbert Read.

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Congo peatlands could release billions of tonnes of carbon

Published
2 November 2022
Categories
Science | Environment | Global

The world’s largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago, new research has revealed.

Aya Al Sharqawy stands in a field of crops in Egypt

Fighting Egypt's plastic waste

Published
28 October 2022
Categories
Alumni

When growing up in Cairo, plastic pollutants had a devastating impact upon Aya Al-Sharqawy and her family. It was the motivation she needed to tackle the crisis head on after Leeds.

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Graduate art prize winner announced

Published
27 October 2022
Categories
Arts & Culture

BA Fine Art student Astrid Butt has been awarded the 2022 Friends of University Art and Music Graduate prize.

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University opens community football hub

Published
27 October 2022
Categories
University

Grassroots sport in Leeds has received a huge boost with the unveiling of the Bodington Football Hub, a new facility for the community of Leeds.

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Mapping the pressures of global food production

Published
25 October 2022
Categories
Science | Global

A map showing the environmental pressures from global food production has been developed by researchers, to identify ways of creating more sustainable and just food systems.