584 results for 'global food and environment'
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- 14 March 2022
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- Environment | Global | Research
Researchers warn that permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are much closer to a climatic tipping point than previous believed.
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- 10 March 2022
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- Environment | Science | Research
Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertiliser factory on the Earth’s seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago.
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- 8 March 2022
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- Alumni
PR and Marketing Communications expert Annalise Coady has launched and transformed brands all around the world.
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- 28 February 2022
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- 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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- 28 February 2022
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- 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.
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- 9 February 2022
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- 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.
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- 4 February 2022
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- University | Working with our region | Health
An ambitious vision placing Leeds at the global forefront of cancer research is officially set out today.
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- 2 February 2022
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- Global | Environment | Research
An international team of scientists estimate that there are 14% more tree species than previously thought.
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- 31 January 2022
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- Global | Environment | Science | Research
Ian Brooks, Professor of Boundary Layer Processes at the University of Leeds, has been awarded the Polar Medal.
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- 31 January 2022
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- Technology | Science | Global
A mobile phone app has been launched in Kenya to help people avoid the death and destruction caused by tropical storms.
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- 28 January 2022
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- News | Science | Environment
There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach climate targets, a new report warns.
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- 15 January 2022
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- 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.
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- 14 December 2021
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- Environment | Working with our region | University
The University of Leeds is making the single biggest investment in its history to achieve a low carbon future.
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- 13 December 2021
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- Science | Environment
A new study reveals that disabled households in the Europe Union currently consume 10% less energy than other households, as well as being 5% more likely to experience energy poverty.
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- 6 December 2021
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- Environment
Special status has been awarded to the habitat of a species of seal left endangered due to human activity.