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• Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change

  Date: 16 Oct 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/wildfires-americas-supercharged-climate-change

  Study: Warming increased burning in Pantanal, Chiquitano and Amazon, releasing billions of tonnes of CO2, while climate change increased...

• Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function

  Date: 29 Sep 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/fruit-air-pollution-lung-function

  Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society...

• Climate change project driven forward at Space Park Leicester

  Date: 19 Sep 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/climate-change-project-space-park-leicester

  Event held as part of WorldPeatland project, which is developing effective tools to monitor peatlands based on freely available Earth observation data

• Faraday Institution Honours Leicester Team for Battery Recycling Innovation

  Date: 16 Sep 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/faraday-institution-honours-battery-recycling-innovation

  University of Leicester chemists recognised with a Highly Commended Faraday Institution Community Award for Innovation for patent-pending...

• Citizens of Change: University of Leicester to spark national dialogue at Labour Party Conference

  Date: 15 Sep 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/national-dialogue-labour-party-conference

  Five events organised by the University will take place at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on Monday 29 September

• 150-million-year post-mortem reveals baby pterosaurs perished in a violent storm

  Date: 5 Sep 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/150-million-year-post-mortem-baby-pterosaurs-storm

  University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils - tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, pterosaurs, with broken wings

• 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...