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A green cycling traffic light

'Communicate smarter' about climate change action

Published
10 November 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Science
Environment

Policy analysts and planners will be able to 鈥渃ommunicate smarter鈥 about climate change action by using a new online decision-support tool which has been launched at COP27.

A supermarket trolley in a supermarket aisle

Communities needing help to put food on tables

Published
8 November 2022
Categories
Health

Communities across the UK which need help to access affordable food have been identified in a groundbreaking study by researchers at the 映客直播.

Ventilation ducts in a building

Scientists and engineers champion building ventilation

Published
8 November 2022
Categories
Working with business
Science
Global
Health

A campaign promoting the role of better building ventilation to support health and wellbeing has been launched by a coalition of scientists and engineering bodies.

Grant Shapps, the Business Secretary, touring a lab at the Henry Royce Institute

New materials to drive UK economic growth

Published
7 November 2022
Categories
Working with business
Science
Technology

The Government has announced a 拢95 million boost to develop the new materials of the future through research at the Henry Royce Institute, a consortium of nine institutions including Leeds.

Artist's impression of a collision between the Moon and Earth

Magnetism could help explain Earth鈥檚 formation

Published
3 November 2022
Categories
Science

A peculiar property of the Earth鈥檚 magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new scientific assessment.

Fishing camp on the Ikelemba River, DRC

Congo peatlands could release billions of tonnes of carbon

Published
2 November 2022
Categories
Science
Environment
Global

The world鈥檚 largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago, new research has revealed.

an aerial photograph of three football pitches and buildings.

University opens community football hub

Published
27 October 2022
Categories
University

Grassroots sport in Leeds has received a huge boost with the unveiling of the Bodington Football Hub, a new facility for the community of Leeds.

Field of soyabean

Mapping the pressures of global food production

Published
25 October 2022
Categories
Science
Global

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.