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• ‘Fizzy pop’ process reveals copper-rich volcanoes

  Date: 20 Oct 2023

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  Identifying magmas that experience the same process that makes fizzy drinks ‘bubbly’ has been used by a team of Â鶹ÊÓƵ geologists...

• Core values: the geoscientists searching for climate answers beneath the ocean floor

  Date: 10 Oct 2023

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  Two geoscientists from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment are on a voyage to unearth the hidden history within Hawai’ian fossil...

• Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues

  Date: 18 Sep 2023

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  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig...

• Leicester scientists voyage to Hawai’ian fossil coral reefs to find window into the past and future

  Date: 30 Aug 2023

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  International expedition off the coast of Hawai’i includes researchers from Â鶹ÊÓƵ, with the aim of recovering coral reef fossils...

• Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

  Date: 29 Aug 2023

  /news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning

  Scientists from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct...

• Study finds plastic is changing the behaviour of the world’s river sediment

  Date: 25 Jul 2023

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  A Â鶹ÊÓƵ expert has led a study which has found plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave.

• Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes

  Date: 17 May 2023

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  Arid regions of South Africa were once home to lakes, a Â鶹ÊÓƵ-led study has confirmed.

• Fire and ice: the Antarctic volcanoes that hint at our climate future

  Date: 13 Jan 2023

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  Professor John Smellie, Honorary Professor in the School of Geology, Geography and the Environment, talks about his career and his love of the...

• Double distinction for Leicester’s ‘Mr Antarctic Volcano’ in New Year Honours

  Date: 5 Jan 2023

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ volcanologist Professor John Smellie receives Polar Medal for the second time, from second monarch.

• Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form

  Date: 8 Aug 2022

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  New research at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form.