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Nearly half UK carbon footprint is from overseas emissions
Nearly half the UK’s carbon footprint comes from emissions released overseas to satisfy UK-based consumption, according to a new report.
LIDA joins powerful new covid-19 data alliance
Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) is providing a powerful new covid-19 data alliance with secure infrastructure, scientific expertise and access to global academic research networks.
International alliance to accelerate climate action
A new international alliance of universities has been established to help communicate research on the most effective means to meet the urgent global challenge of the climate crisis.
Six-fold increase in polar ice losses since the 1990s
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario.
Clean water and sanitation in Pakistan
Congratulations to Dr Hifza Rasheed, a PhD alum (2018) who was nominated as a finalist in the Professional Achievement category of the British Council Awards in Pakistan earlier this year.