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• Professor Clare Anderson appointed as trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich

  Date: 28 July 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/clare-anderson

  The University of Leicester’s Professor Clare Anderson has been appointed by the Prime Minister as one of six new Trustees of the Royal Museums...

• Ceremony late show sees Gloria make University of Leicester history

  Date: 26 July 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/gloria-mawete

  Geography student makes University of Leicester graduation history

• Scientists pour cold water on claim British rivers are ‘cleanest since Industrial Revolution’

  Date: 12 July 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/river-water-quality

  Scientists and charities have poured cold water on recent claims that water quality in British rivers is “better than at any time since the end of...

• Carbon Keepers project to create new carbon credits for farmers and landowners

  Date: 23 June 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/carbon-keepers

  Carbon Keepers, a green tech start-up, has signed up to the national SPRINT (Space Research and Innovation Network for Technology) business...

• Wider-reaching solutions urgently needed to reach realistic ‘net zero’, warn researchers

  Date: 28 January 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/landscape-decisions-net-zero

  There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach...

• Major £1.7m funding to clean up Philippines mineral extraction

  Date: 18 November 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/promt

  Leicester researchers have been awarded part of a £1.

• Leicester experts feed £3.6 million sustainable agriculture training programme

  Date: 7 October 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/sustainable-agriculture-training

  Researchers at the University of Leicester will lend their expertise to a new £3.

• River research reveals scale of macroplastic pollution

  Date: 21 September 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/river-plastic

  Plastic pollution clogs river systems for considerably longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Leicester shows.

• Top 5 Leicester projects for a greener future

  Date: 11 June 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/top-5-sustainable-projects

  The G7 Summit gets underway in Cornwall today (Friday), where world leaders will gather to tackle global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic...

• Better peatland management could cut half a billion tonnes of carbon

  Date: 27 May 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/peatland-emissions-nature

  Half a billion tonnes of carbon emissions could be cut from Earth’s atmosphere by improved management of peatlands, according to research partly...