584 results for 'global food and environment'
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- 30 January 2017
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- University | Working with business | Health
A new spin-out company, Dietary Assessment Ltd, has formed to help track and analyse dietary intake.
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- 25 January 2017
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- Environment
The first ever comparison of six of the major global flood risk monitoring computer models has revealed wide discrepancies between the information they provide.
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- 18 January 2017
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- Research and innovation | Business and partnerships
The global food system needs to be made more equitable and sustainable, according to a University expert who is lobbying senior politicians and business figures this week.
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- 16 January 2017
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- Environment
A focus on policies to conserve tropical forests for their carbon storage value may imperil some of the world’s most biologically rich tropical forests.
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- 11 January 2017
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- Environment
A vast peatland in the Congo Basin has been mapped for the first time, revealing it to be the largest in the tropics.
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- 3 January 2017
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- Business & Economy | Environment
Holidaymakers concerned about fresh volcanic eruptions causing flight-disrupting ash clouds might be reassured by a study setting out the first reliable estimates of their frequency.
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- 14 December 2016
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- University
Closer relations between two leading international universities have been confirmed this week following top-level meetings which will strengthen UK-China research and teaching opportunities.
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- 5 December 2016
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- Environment
The way in which man-made acids in the atmosphere interact with the dust that nourishes our oceans has been quantified by scientists for the first time.
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- 21 November 2016
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- Science | Working with business
Yorkshire will soon become one of the best places in Europe for pig research, thanks to significant investment from the University of Leeds and the Government.
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- 15 November 2016
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- Business & Economy | Science | Environment
A new £6 million project led by the University of Leeds is predicted to bring a £50 million benefit to the Yorkshire economy by reducing the costs and impact of water-related threats to the region.
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- 28 October 2016
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- Environment
In a study led by the University of Leeds, scientists have solved one of the most long-standing challenges in atmospheric science: to understand how particles are formed in the atmosphere.
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- 7 July 2016
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- Environment
The most extensive land-based study of the effect of drought on Amazonian rainforests to date has shown that a recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin’s carbon sink.
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- 1 July 2016
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- News | Technology
Robots rarely get a good press. They’re either turning rogue, trying to control the human race as in The Matrix, or wreaking a path of destruction to kill the hero in Will Smith’s I, Robot.
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- 30 June 2016
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- Environment
Scientists have observed clear signs that the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer is beginning to close.
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- 3 June 2016
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- Environment
The launch of the Priestley International Centre for Climate saw astronaut Piers Sellers – a climate scientist and an alumnus of the University - supporting Leeds' investment.