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Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from Â鶹ÊÓƵ days
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Staff at Â鶹ÊÓƵ help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a...
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Climate change project driven forward at Space Park Leicester
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Event held as part of WorldPeatland project, which is developing effective tools to monitor peatlands based on freely available Earth observation data
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Leicester geoscientists return from expedition following successful offshore operations
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International expedition off the coast of New England (Massachusetts, USA) included researchers from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, aiming to...
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World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old
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New research finds peatland complex in Congo Basin to be more than twice as old as previously thought, expertise from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ...
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Silent witnesses: corals pinpoint the start of deforestation in Borneo
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientists analyse the chemical composition of corals to spot the signs of deforestation, filling a huge gap in...
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Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon
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Study involving Â鶹ÊÓƵ researcher shows intensified seasonal cycles, with wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier,...
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Tradition meets AI as Leicester scientists help tackle Amazonian biodiversity crisis
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Scientists led by Â鶹ÊÓƵ working with universities in Brazil will support traditional communities to monitor biodiversity in the...
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Leicester scientists investigating ancient freshwater hundreds of metres below the sea floor
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International expedition off the coast of New England (Massachusetts, USA) includes researchers from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ aiming to explore...
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Report shows rate of stillbirths and neonatal deaths decreased in 2023 but persistent inequalities remain
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The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s...
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New educational video series on Icelandic eruptions recognised in three of the UK’s most prestigious Geography educational awards
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University Leicester contributes to video series through the involvement of Dr Marc Reichow from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment