584 results for 'global food and environment'
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- 22 November 2022
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- Science | Environment
Scientists lucky enough to be in the “right place at the right time” witnessed a giant lump of ice breaking away from the William Glacier in Antarctica, a process known as calving.
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- 17 November 2022
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- Science | Global | Environment
Leading researchers, including University of Leeds academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests.
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- 10 November 2022
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- Society & Politics | Science | Environment
Policy analysts and planners will be able to “communicate smarter” about climate change action by using a new online decision-support tool which has been launched at COP27.
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- 8 November 2022
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- Working with business | Science | Global | Health
A campaign promoting the role of better building ventilation to support health and wellbeing has been launched by a coalition of scientists and engineering bodies.
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- 2 November 2022
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- Science | Environment | Global
The world’s largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago, new research has revealed.
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- 28 October 2022
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- Alumni
When growing up in Cairo, plastic pollutants had a devastating impact upon Aya Al-Sharqawy and her family. It was the motivation she needed to tackle the crisis head on after Leeds.
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- 21 October 2022
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- Society & Politics | Environment | Working with our region
Regional leaders and organisations must work ever more closely to achieve net zero in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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- 17 October 2022
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- Working with our region | Working with business | Science
Working together is the only way communities, businesses and organisations in Yorkshire and Humber can make a successful transition to a low carbon future, says a leading climate scientist.
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- 4 October 2022
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- Science | Environment
A calculator which could reduce the level of carbon emissions generated by food production and consumption has been developed by data scientists at the University of Leeds.
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- 21 September 2022
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- Environment | Science
Global warming is likely to cause a decline in the number of species of microbes that live in tropical soils - and that could threaten the biodiversity of rainforests and increase carbon emissions.
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- 20 September 2022
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- Working with business | Working with our region | University | Technology
Leeds Digital Festival has announced the full schedule for its latest instalment of the tech showcase, with over 200 events taking place from Tuesday 20 to Friday 30 September.
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- 24 August 2022
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- Science | Environment
People who make a living fishing off the coral reefs around the Maldives say their daily income is down by almost a quarter due to sharks stealing their catch.
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- 22 August 2022
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- Health
The deadliest form of brain cancer returns because tumours adapt to treatment by recruiting help from nearby healthy tissue, say researchers who are trying to find a cure for the disease.
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- 11 August 2022
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- Research | Science | Health
A study of more than 26,000 middle-aged UK women reveals those with a vegetarian diet had a 33% higher risk of hip fracture compared to regular meat-eaters.
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- 21 July 2022
- Categories
- Global | Environment
A new study has mapped the full scale of a vast region of peatland in the heart of the Congo Basin, revealing it to be 15% bigger than previously thought.