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• Wider-reaching solutions urgently needed to reach realistic ‘net zero’, warn researchers

  Date: 28 Jan 2022

  /news/2022/january/landscape-decisions-net-zero

  There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach...

• New strategic partnership to explore four-dimensional first order controls on nickel mineral systems

  Date: 25 Jan 2022

  /news/2022/january/bhp-ev-metals

  Researchers at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ have signed a major research agreement with BHP, one of the world’s largest mining companies, to...

• Major £1.7m funding to clean up Philippines mineral extraction

  Date: 18 Nov 2021

  /news/2021/november/promt

  Leicester researchers have been awarded part of a £1.

• COP26: Funding boost for new space mission to monitor carbon

  Date: 4 Nov 2021

  /news/2021/november/microcarb

  Leicester researchers will contribute to a new joint British and French space mission dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide – the...

• COP26: Leicester experts on world stage to combat climate crisis

  Date: 29 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/cop26

  Leicester scientists will feature on the world stage as they share their expertise at COP26.

• Research identifies new family of marine ‘megaphages’

  Date: 21 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/marine-megaphages

  Microbiologists have identified a new family of marine megaphages which could change understanding of Earth’s carbon and nitrogen cycles.

• Satellite centrepiece for Space Park Leicester

  Date: 15 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/space-park-satellites

  Two satellites which shine a light on Leicester’s role in climate research form the centrepiece of Space Park Leicester’s new atrium space.

• Leicester experts feed £3.6 million sustainable agriculture training programme

  Date: 7 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/sustainable-agriculture-training

  Researchers at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ will lend their expertise to a new £3.

• River research reveals scale of macroplastic pollution

  Date: 21 Sep 2021

  /news/2021/september/river-plastic

  Plastic pollution clogs river systems for considerably longer than previously thought, new research from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ shows.

• Leicester scholars co-host international workshop to tackle SDGs

  Date: 11 Aug 2021

  /news/2021/august/metals-workshop-sdgs

  Engineering students and materials researchers based at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ have joined forces with peers in China to help tackle two of...