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• University of Leicester expert joins authors of United Nations climate change report

  Date: 27 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/expert-author-united-nations-climate-change-report

  Professor Valerio Lucarini from the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences is one of 664 international experts appointed by UN body the...

• New land report highlights importance of Earth Observation data

  Date: 18 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/new-land-report-importance-earth-observation-data

  Briefing paper on Multifunctional Land Use and the importance of Earth Observation data written by Dr Francesca Faedi from Space Park Leicester...

• Scientist to share lifetime of adventures in free talk

  Date: 13 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/scientist-lifetime-adventures-free-talk

  Leading scientist, author and University of Leicester alumnus speaks on his 50-year career

• Leicester geoscientists return from expedition following successful offshore operations

  Date: 8 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/geoscientists-expedition-successful-offshore-operations

  International expedition off the coast of New England (Massachusetts, USA) included researchers from the University of Leicester, aiming to...

• World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old

  Date: 31 Jul 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/largest-tropical-peatlands-40000-years-old

  New research finds peatland complex in Congo Basin to be more than twice as old as previously thought, expertise from the University of Leicester...

• New carbon-monitoring satellite will shed light on photosynthesis thanks to Leicester scientists

  Date: 28 Jul 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/microcarb-carbon-monitoring-satellite-photosynthesis

  An algorithm designed by scientists at the University of Leicester and National Centre for Earth Observation, based at Space Park Leicester, will...

• Silent witnesses: corals pinpoint the start of deforestation in Borneo

  Date: 3 Jul 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/corals-pinpoint-deforestation-borneo

  University of Leicester scientists analyse the chemical composition of corals to spot the signs of deforestation, filling a huge gap in...

• Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon

  Date: 16 Jun 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tree-rings-increasing-rainfall-seasonality-amazon

  Study involving University of Leicester researcher shows intensified seasonal cycles, with wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier,...

• Leicester scientists investigating ancient freshwater hundreds of metres below the sea floor

  Date: 20 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/scientists-ancient-freshwater-below-sea-floor

  International expedition off the coast of New England (Massachusetts, USA) includes researchers from the University of Leicester aiming to explore...

• Report shows rate of stillbirths and neonatal deaths decreased in 2023 but persistent inequalities remain

  Date: 8 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/perinatal-loss-infancy-death-leicester

  The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and the University of Leicester’s...