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Greenland ice losses rising faster than expected
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate warming scenario, which would see 40 million more people exposed&# ...
Fossil fuels offer a poor return on energy investment
An evaluation of the global energy return on investment for fossil fuels and renewable sources reveals a much more level playing field than previously believed....
Air quality success, but what about the impact of Brexit?
At a seminar in Brussels later today [Tuesday, 11 October], the role of EU policy in improving air quality will be praised, at a time when such policies face an uncertain future because of the result of Britain's European referendum....
Teaching Polar predictions to the next generation
Prof Ian Brooks spent two weeks in April as an invited lecture on a Polar Prediction School for graduate students and early career researchers. ...
Halving emissions by 2030 can keep 1.5°C within reach
Emissions, Climate...
Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics launches in January
A new cross-disciplinary institute to study fluid dynamics will launch on January 30th, 2019 at the University of Leeds....
Why Earth's magnetic poles could be about to swap places
The Earth’s magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field – protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away....
Nearly a quarter of West Antarctic ice is now unstable
In only 25 years, ocean melting has caused ice thinning to spread across West Antarctica so rapidly that a quarter of its glacier ice is now affected, according to a new study....
Decent living for all does not have to cost the Earth
Global energy consumption in 2050 could be reduced to the levels of the 1960s and still provide a decent standard of living for a population three times larger, according to a new study....
Breakthrough science from the CLOUD experiment at CERN
ICAS scientists have been working with the CLOUD project at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva for more than a decade....
Bradford tyre fire pollution ‘worse than bonfire night’
A Leeds scientist says pollution from the huge tyre fire in Bradford is worse than Bonfire Night and that it will affect people with breathing difficulties....
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....
Ice sheets could add 39 centimetres to sea level by 2100
Scientists warn that if greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute more than 39cm to global sea level rise this century....
Extreme heat likely to cause next mass extinction
A new study shows unprecedented heat is likely to lead to the next mass extinction since the dinosaurs died out, eliminating nearly all mammals in some 250 million years time....
Two Living with Environmental Change EPSRC Networks funded
Two Leeds-led EPSRC networks have been funded as part of the Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) and Mathematical Sciences themes....