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Leeds Alumni reunite at Unleash 2017 Denmark

Leeds Alumni reunite at Unleash 2017 Denmark

Last August UNLEASH innovation lab 2017 took place in Denmark. UNLEASH is an initiative that brought together a 1000 young talents from 129 countries to co-create practical and innovative solutions to help realising the UN’s sustainability...

Microplastics detected in rural woodland

Microplastics detected in rural woodland

Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural areas in greater quantities than in cities, researchers say....

Climate change could take us back 50 million years

Climate change could take us back 50 million years

A recently published paper, co-authored by University of Leeds' Professor Alan Haywood, shows that humans are reversing a long-term cooling trend, which traces back at least 50 million years. And it’s taken just two centuries....

New links forged between SEE and Bayero University

New links forged between SEE and Bayero University

Lindsay Stringer and Uche Okpara visited Bayero University, Kano (BUK) from 2-7 February 2018, following an invitation from the BUK Vice Chancellor Muhammad Yahuza Bello....

Clearing up cloudy climate predictions

Clearing up cloudy climate predictions

UK scientists are taking to the skies as part of a major international research campaign to better understand the behaviour of clouds and their role in climate change....

Mapping the pressures of global food production

Mapping the pressures of global food production

A map showing the environmental pressures from global food production has been developed by researchers, to identify ways of creating more sustainable and just food systems....

Volcanic 'plumerang' could impact human health

Volcanic 'plumerang' could impact human health

A new study has found a previously undetected potential health risk from the high concentration of small particles found in a boomerang-like return of a volcanic plume....

New insight into climate impacts of deforestation

New insight into climate impacts of deforestation

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, studied the way that reactive gases emitted by trees and vegetation affect the climate....

Anja Schmidt wins prestigious George Walker Award

Anja Schmidt wins prestigious George Walker Award

We are delighted to announce that SEE Academic Research Fellow Anja Schmidt has won the highly prestigious George Walker Award of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)....

When love is in the air...

When love is in the air...

Researchers are asking everybody across the UK to help survey one of the most amazing phenomena in the insect world – when millions of ants take to the air for their nuptial flight....