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New £9m programme to transform food systems in Africa

Published
22 March 2018
Categories
Global
Environment

A £9.2m research programme focused on improving policy making in Africa, to develop sustainable and productive agricultural systems which are resistant to climate change, has been launched.

Leeds

A good life for all within the planet’s means

Published
5 February 2018
Categories
Global
Environment

A study led by the Ó³¿ÍÖ±²¥ has found that no country currently meets its citizens’ basic needs at a globally sustainable level of resource use.

Shanghai

Chinese partnership to tackle environmental challenges

Published
2 January 2018
Categories
Global
Environment

A new partnership agreement has been signed with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), aimed at strengthening future research collaborations with the Ó³¿ÍÖ±²¥.

Picture shows people in a hospital in rural China attached to antibiotic drips

Preventing inappropriate antibiotic use

Published
26 October 2017
Categories
Global
Health

A collaboration between scientists has helped reduce the prescription of unneeded antibiotics to children in rural China.

Research vessel DV Fugro Synergy Credit: CCotteril@ECORD_IODP

Drilling into the mysteries of seismic activity

Published
19 October 2017
Categories
Science
Global

An international expedition aims to better understand seismic activity through samples collected from one of the most geologically active areas in Europe.

•	Surface meltwater ponding on dark ice (Credit C F Dow)

Greenland ice flow likely to speed up

Published
16 August 2017
Categories
Global
Science
Environment

New seismic surveys are challenging the view that recent slowdowns in Greenland’s ice flow will continue in the long term.

A. Fleming, British Antarctic Survey

Tracking the giant Antarctic iceberg

Published
2 August 2017
Categories
Global
Environment

The largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the size of London broke free earlier this month.