595 results for 'global food environment'
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- 1 March 2023
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- Science | Global | Environment
Deforestation is resulting in reduced rainfall across large parts of the tropics, according to new research.
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- 27 February 2023
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- Science | Environment
Glaciers along the Antarctic peninsula are flowing faster in the summer because of a combination of melting snow and warmer ocean waters, say researchers.
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- 27 February 2023
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- Alumni | Research
Climate change is hitting the hardest in the world’s mountain ranges. We learn how Leeds glaciologist Professor Duncan Quincey is helping locals at the world's highest glacier.
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- 21 February 2023
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- Technology | Science | Environment | Research
Governments are not using the latest mapping technology to report key environmental data about tropical forests to the UN, say researchers.
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- 20 February 2023
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- Arts & Culture | Society & Politics | Environment | Research
World War II-style rationing could be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds.
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- 6 February 2023
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- University | Business & Economy | Working with business
Offering lifelong opportunities to learn new skills and prepare for changing career demands is a key ambition of the University of Leeds.
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- 16 January 2023
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- Global | Environment | Science
Scientists have analysed data from nearly three million rivers across the globe to identify where hydropower stations could be sited with limited environmental impacts.
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- 9 January 2023
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- Science | Environment
Scientists have developed AI to track the development of crevasses - or fractures - on the Thwaites Glacier ice tongue in west Antarctica.
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- 8 December 2022
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- Science | Global | Environment
Reforestation projects could be made more effective with the findings of new research into the constraints on nitrogen fixation among plants.
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- 2 December 2022
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- Working with our region | Science | Environment
Planting for a new woodland has begun on land owned by the University of Leeds on the northern edge of the city.
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- 22 November 2022
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- Science | Environment
Scientists lucky enough to be in the “right place at the right time” witnessed a giant lump of ice breaking away from the William Glacier in Antarctica, a process known as calving.
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- 17 November 2022
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- Science | Global | Environment
Leading researchers, including University of Leeds academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests.
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- 10 November 2022
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- 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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- 8 November 2022
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- 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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- 2 November 2022
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- 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.