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Geography community co-creates the degree experience

Over the last 12 months, the School of Geography has brought students and staff together to co-create its vision for a redefined curriculum.

John lockwood obituary

Obituary: Dr John Lockwood

Influential Teacher of Climate Science at the School of Geography

Drone photography of Hammarmossen raised bog, Sweden, where researchers found that open water pools have been rapidly shrinking and disappearing over the last six decades, overgrown by mats of Sphagnum moss and sedges.

Shrinking pools on northern peatlands

Peatlands are carbon-rich wetlands that are often covered in mazy patterns of open water pools, but some boreal peatlands in Scandinavia and elsewhere are beginning to lose their characteristic pools.

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Research on slavery and trafficking aims to understand, build awareness and protect victims

This Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we highlight research at the University of Leeds that explores the causes and solutions to modern-day slavery and contributes towards ending it.

A photograph of a tropical forest treetop canopy.

Common tree species dominate tropical forests

Scientists have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world’s tropical forests.

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