597 results for 'global food environment'
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- 1 February 2018
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- Technology | Science
Researchers from the University of Leeds are contributing to a 30-month autonomous vehicle project that will culminate in the most complex journey yet attempted across the UK without driver input.
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- 23 January 2018
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- Science | Environment
An international competition to estimate the diversity of plants across the whole of Britain has shown that mathematical modelling techniques are ‘coming of age’.
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- 10 January 2018
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- Science | Environment
Scientists have found fossil evidence of deep-sea marine life burrowing at least eight metres below the seabed – four times the previously observed depth for modern deep-sea life.
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- 9 January 2018
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- Working with business | University
Senior regional business leaders visited the University this week to find out how Nexus, its new gateway to world-leading research expertise and infrastructure, will boost economic growth.
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- 2 January 2018
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- Global | Environment
A new partnership agreement has been signed with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), aimed at strengthening future research collaborations with the University of Leeds.
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- 19 December 2017
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- Environment | News
The remaining undisturbed rainforests in Borneo, some of the world’s tallest and most carbon-dense, have been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the past 50 years, a new study shows.
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- 18 December 2017
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- Science | Environment
River invertebrates react the same way to decreasing glacier cover wherever in the world they are, according to new University research.
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- 15 December 2017
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- Science | Environment
Today our world is visually dominated by animals and plants, but this world would not have been possible without fungi, say University of Leeds scientists.
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- 15 December 2017
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- Environment
Leeds researchers are supporting a business' £1m project to develop new graphene-based water filters, to bring the technology closer to addressing world-wide water scarcity.
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- 13 December 2017
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- University
Professor Dame Jane Francis has been announced as the University’s new Chancellor.
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- 8 December 2017
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- Technology | News
Research into innovative medical technologies has been recognised in the Government’s Industrial Strategy Life Sciences Sector Deal.
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- 4 December 2017
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- Environment | Science
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, has quantified the relationship between natural sources of particles in the atmosphere and climate change.
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- 23 November 2017
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- Environment | Science
Shrinking glacier cover could lead to increased volcanic activity in Iceland, scientists have warned.
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- 20 October 2017
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- Science | Environment
One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found.
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- 19 October 2017
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- Science | Global
An international expedition aims to better understand seismic activity through samples collected from one of the most geologically active areas in Europe.