Increasingly hot summer weather could cause a fall in crop yields over the next two decades unless farming techniques are improved more quickly, scientists at the University have found.
The Institute for Transport Studies will play an important role in the DEMAND: Dynamics of Energy Mobility and Demand Centre, one of the RCUK's five new End Use Energy Demand (EUED) research centres.
The University of Leeds is to receive more than £2 million in government funding to help its cutting-edge research deliver benefits to business.
Low carbon technologies such as solar power could support almost the entire global economy by 2050, environmentalist Jonathon Porritt told an alumni audience at the University of Leeds last night.
Research released today shows that within the next 10 years large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and possibly even global food security.
The University of Leeds is to benefit from a multi-million pound investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
The University of Leeds and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have teamed up to create a joint research institute to develop next generation energy storage systems.
Exclusive funding for regenerative medicine projects with academic and industry collaborators has been launched at a special conference.
Researchers from the University of Leeds are studying how to make electricity from electrodes coated in bacteria, and other living cells, using light or hydrogen as the fuel.
The English class divide is still going strong when it comes to a choice of where to go abroad for breast implants and nose jobs.