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Building resilient, secure and sustainable food systems
This World Food Day, we’re highlighting research that's changing food systems for the better.
Over 40 percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves are smaller
71 of the 162 ice shelves that surround Antarctica have reduced in volume over 25 years from 1997 to 2021, with a net release of 7.5 trillion tonnes of meltwater into the oceans, say scientists.
New satellite-aided research explored at European Space Agency Conference
The University of Leeds hosted the European Space Agency’s 12th International Workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry and Sentinel-1 InSAR”.
Improving home retrofit policies with place-based solutions
A team from the Universities of Leeds, Strathclyde and Sussex are using research to improve support for people to retrofit their homes.
Melting ice likely triggered climate change 8,000+ years ago
Using geological samples from the Ythan Estuary in Scotland, scientists have identified a melting ice sheet as the probable trigger of a major climate-change event just over 8,000 years ago.