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robot arms maintaining protective netting over green leafy vegetables in an agricultural nursery

Can robotics help us achieve sustainable development?

Published
23 June 2022
Categories
Technology
Global

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, have assessed how robotics and autonomous systems might facilitate or impede the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Phosphorus mining process

Tackling the phosphorus crisis

Published
9 June 2022
Categories
Environment
Science

Global mismanagement of phosphorus is threatening food security and polluting water, according to a new report into the use of the finite nutrient.

Close-up of a sheep's wool

Why wool matters

Published
7 April 2022
Categories
Environment
Science

Experts in the field of land management and carbon sequestration are highlighting wool’s unique properties and the positive contribution sheep can make to the continued wellbeing of the planet.

Drone viewpoint taken looking directly down on a palm tree canopy

“Tree of life” could help slow climate change

Published
4 April 2022
Categories
Global
Environment
Research

Changing the way fruit is gathered from a “tree of life” could have hugely positive environmental and financial impacts in Amazonia, according to a new study.