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Changing the story

Published
8 March 2022
Categories
Alumni

PR and Marketing Communications expert Annalise Coady has launched and transformed brands all around the world.

Flood Victims on boats, being rescued.

Climate change 'a mounting threat to our wellbeing'

Published
28 February 2022
Categories
Science
Environment
Research

Despite efforts to reduce the risks, changes in the Earth’s climate caused by human activity are affecting the lives of billions of people, according to a major international report published today.

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Tropical carbon loss has doubled due to forest clearance

Published
28 February 2022
Categories
University
Science
Environment

Researchers using multiple high-resolution satellite observations have found that carbon loss has more than doubled since 2001 due to forest clearance across the tropics.

Airbus A380 arrives for cold weather testing - Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada

Thawing permafrost could release cancer-causing gas

Published
9 February 2022
Categories
Global
Environment
Research

Thawing of permafrost due to climate change could expose the Arctic population to much greater concentrations of the cancer-causing gas Radon, a new story has found.

Trees in the Amazon rainforest in Peru

The number of tree species on Earth

Published
2 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
31 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
31 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
15 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.