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To the Arctic and Beyond

Published
Wednesday 27th March, 2024
Categories
Environment
University

Seize every opportunity and make the most of life’s amazing adventures.

Professor Dame Jane Francis in Rothera, Antarctica

Investment needed in African climate science

Published
Wednesday 27th March, 2024
Categories
Global

Africa needs long term investment in scientific infrastructure and science careers to allow the continent to adapt to climate change and its effect on weather systems.

Storm clouds gather in the distance over bush country in Ghana

Social enterprise tackles food waste

Published
Wednesday 20th March, 2024
Categories
Environment

Food waste campaigners are calling on Leeds residents and businesses to get on board with their free collection service which prevents household food waste from going to landfill.

Compost-it creators Simrun Punjabi and Husain Alogaily stand with a caddy of vegetable waste with volunteers Orla Smith and Katherine Mustard

Placing schools at forefront of child poverty work

Published
Tuesday 19th March, 2024
Categories
Society & Politics
Health

The government must form a national plan to tackle child poverty with schools and nurseries at the forefront, the authors of a new report say.

Children in a classroom raising their hands

Exploring African food challenges

Published
Thursday 14th March, 2024
Categories
Global

Partners from across Africa gathered in Leeds for a week of research dedicated to tackling challenges in food systems and supply chains.

Group photo of the Mayor and other people involved in the project

Cancer deaths plummet in middle aged people

Published
Thursday 14th March, 2024
Categories
Health
Science

Fewer middle-aged people are dying from cancer in the UK than at any point over the last 25 years, new research shows.

A doctor and a patient looking at a mammogram scan