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Major new water solutions programme to benefit the Yorkshire economy by £50 million

A new £6 million project led by the University of Leeds is predicted to bring a £50 million benefit to the Yorkshire economy by reducing the costs and impact of water-related threats to the region.

CLOUD experiment, CERN Geneva. Credit: CERN

Breakthrough science from the CLOUD experiment at CERN

ICAS scientists have been working with the CLOUD project at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva for more than a decade.

The map shows the number of premature deaths prevented each year due to the introduction of European Union (EU) policies and new technologies to reduce air pollution. The numbers given are for a 4km by 4km grid square.

Air quality success, but what about the impact of Brexit?

At a seminar in Brussels later today [Tuesday, 11 October], the role of EU policy in improving air quality will be praised, at a time when such policies face an uncertain future because of the result

Tina Nakashole from University of Leeds on fieldwork looking at the old rock bed of the Orange river in Namibia.

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Travel Behaviour Response to Major Disruptions

The current focus of transportation policy around disruptive events is to adopt an engineering resilience-oriented approach, focusing on returning assets to good workable order as soon as possible.