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An image of factories across a skyline with a sunset across the sky.

Decarbonising the world’s industries

Harmful emissions from the industrial sector could be reduced by up to 85% across the world, according to new research.

Log floating in a quarry, showing old debris, metal infrastructure and calm reflections in the water. English Lake District, Hodge Close Quarry near Coniston.

£2.6 million training centre in mineral resources for the green energy transition

Researchers at Leeds have helped to secure a £2.6 million initiative funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), part of UK Research and Innovation.

Dr Will Homoky, Dr Alastair Lough and Chiara Krewer onboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough, having reached Antarctica.

Cold, unbalanced and feeling seasick – all in the name of science

Three researchers from the University of Leeds are embarking on a two-month expedition to the Antarctic to investigate one of the most important questions in climate science.

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.