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High fossil fuel prices mean UK cannot delay transition to low emissions steel
Steel is essential for making many of the technologies that will end fossil fuel combustion. Unfortunately, to produce a lot of steel, manufacturers need to burn a lot of fossil fuel.
Extra £1m funding awarded to SENSE project
Training for next generation of earth observation leaders renewed.
Heat pumps without home insulation could raise bills and overload the grid
A blog by Professor Alice Owen from the School of Earth & Environment and Dr Faye Wade from the University of Edinburgh.
Underwater tsunamis created by glacier break-up
Scientists lucky enough to be in the “right place at the right time” witnessed a giant lump of ice breaking away from the William Glacier in Antarctica, a process known as calving.
'Decade of action' to restore world's forests
Leading researchers, including University of Leeds academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests.