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Leeds is top three in UK for sustainable impact
The global Times Higher Education Impact Rankings today recognises the University as one of the top three in the UK and 11th worldwide.
Six-fold increase in polar ice losses since the 1990s
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario.
Art historian Griselda Pollock wins Holberg Prize
Griselda Pollock, Leeds' Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, was announced this morning as the recipient of this year’s Holberg Prize.
Global species loss could be halved
Extinction risk could decrease by more than 50% if at least 30% of land were to be conserved across the tropics, a new study reveals.
A laser that can route light around corners
Scientists and engineers have created the first electrically-driven ‘topological’ laser, which has the ability to route light particles around corners.