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• Major grant and awards recognition for electronic waste recycling solution

  Date: 3 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/ewaste-award

  An electronic waste-recycling process that’s kinder to the planet – and uses pioneering technology developed at the University of Leicester – has...

• Air quality can be better for active commuters than drivers, research shows

  Date: 27 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/commute-air-quality

  New Leicester research has found that people who commute by car can be subject to higher levels of harmful gases than those who walk or cycle to work.

• Leicester students win out of this world competition for satellite ideas

  Date: 26 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/satellife

  A team of students from Leicester has won thousands of pounds in a competition run by the UK Space Agency calling for innovative ideas on how...

• Space data tracks record-breaking UK heatwave

  Date: 18 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/nceo-hottest-day

  Earth Observation (EO) experts based at the University of Leicester have laid bare the UK’s record-breaking heatwave with data captured from space.

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

  Date: 12 Jul 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...

• Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene

  Date: 18 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/anthropocene-berlin

  Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our...

• Leicester research now ranked Top 30 in the UK (Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021)

  Date: 12 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/ref-2021

  The University of Leicester has made one of the biggest climbs of any UK university in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, published on...

• University of Leicester celebrates top 1.6% global sustainability ranking

  Date: 27 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/the-sustainability-ranking

  The University of Leicester is once again celebrating global sustainability success after being ranked among the top global universities for its...

• Earth Day: National Space Centre launches Home Planet gallery

  Date: 22 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/home-planet

  The next generation of climate change superheroes discovered the importance of our home in space at the launch of a new National Space Centre...

• Urgent action required to protect world’s coral reefs from disappearing within three decades, warn experts

  Date: 15 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/coral-reefs

  An international team of environmental scientists have published a series of significant recommendations to protect, conserve and study the...