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Trees in the Amazon rainforest in Peru

The number of tree species on Earth

Published
Wednesday 2nd February, 2022
Categories
Global
Environment
Research

An international team of scientists estimate that there are 14% more tree species than previously thought.

Professor Ian Brooks in a polar landscape

Prestigious award for leading polar expert

Published
Monday 31st January, 2022
Categories
Global
Environment
Science
Research

Ian Brooks, Professor of Boundary Layer Processes at the University of Leeds, has been awarded the Polar Medal.

A storm appearing over an African rural landscape

New weather app to save lives and livelihoods

Published
Monday 31st January, 2022
Categories
Technology
Science
Global

A mobile phone app has been launched in Kenya to help people avoid the death and destruction caused by tropical storms.

Olivia Cotes-James sat at a table with boxes of LUÜNA Naturals products on the table.

Olivia Cotes-James: Talking taboos

Published
Saturday 15th January, 2022
Categories
Alumni

Named in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list, founder of LUÜNA Naturals Olivia Cotes-James (English Literature 2013) is improving lives across a continent.

The University of Leeds Parkinson Building with a blue sky in the background

University sets out its Climate Plan

Published
Tuesday 14th December, 2021
Categories
Environment
Working with our region
University

The University of Leeds is making the single biggest investment in its history to achieve a low carbon future.

Fossils of the now-extinct trilobite organism, Selenopeltis

Volcanic fertilisation of the oceans drove severe mass extinction

Published
Thursday 2nd December, 2021
Categories
News
Environment

Scientists discover two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, causing one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.