584 results for 'global food and environment'
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- 2 May 2017
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- Environment
Glacier flow at the southern Antarctic Peninsula has increased since the 1990s, but a new study has found the change to be only a third of what was recently reported.
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- 26 April 2017
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- News | Environment
Global warming is responsible for tripling the frequency of extreme West African Sahel storms over the last three decades putting numerous cities in the region at risk, say scientists.
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- 26 April 2017
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- University
A new £5m University of Leeds sports facility launches this week, named after its most successful sporting alumni.
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- 24 April 2017
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- Society & Politics | Arts & Culture
A new exhibition and online photographic archive will allow residents of Leeds to get a glimpse of the city's parks and green spaces since the early 1900s.
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- 10 April 2017
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- Environment
Global warming will thaw about 20% more permafrost than previously thought, scientists have warned; potentially releasing significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere.
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- 4 April 2017
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- Global | Science | Health
The body’s peripheral nervous system could be capable of interpreting its environment and modulating pain, neuroscientists have established, after studying how rodents reacted to stimulation.
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- 3 April 2017
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- News
Pub goers can pair their pint with the latest scientific research as the University of Leeds brings Pint of Science to city watering holes.
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- 23 March 2017
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- University
Leeds has been voted in the top five universities in the UK in the new Times Higher Education’s Student Experience Survey.
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- 22 March 2017
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- Environment | Health
Developing countries struggling to cope with huge volumes of human waste may finally get some relief – and a new business opportunity.
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- 20 March 2017
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- News | University
The University of Leeds has today announced a new partnership with Pearson.
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- 15 March 2017
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- Environment
Urgent action to reduce sea temperatures is needed, as 2015-2016 saw record highs that triggered significant coral bleaching across the tropics and the Australian Great Barrier Reef.
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- 2 March 2017
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- Environment
New research reveals that 85 tree species domesticated by pre-Colombian peoples remain common in forests close to ancient settlements.
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- 20 February 2017
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- Environment
Carbon emissions across all nine Amazon nations have been fully matched by carbon absorption by mature Amazon forests since the 1980s, new research shows.
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- 13 February 2017
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- Science | Arts & Culture
A composer working with sounds below the limits of human hearing has been announced as the winner of the inaugural £15,000 DARE Art Prize by Opera North and the University's Cultural Institute.
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- 7 February 2017
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- Environment
New research based on Precambrian rocks provides insight into how life evolved alongside changes in the chemistry of Earth’s surface.