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Leicester researchers involved in hunt for golden spike that signalled new epoch
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/leicester-researchers-involved-in-hunt-for-golden-spike-that-signalled-new-epoch
Geologists - including Professor Jan Zalasiewicz and Dr Colin Waters from the Department of Geology - are on the hunt for the 'golden spike' that...
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Scientists suggest significant scale of human impact on planet has changed course of Earths history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/scientists-suggest-significant-scale-of-human-impact-on-planet-has-changed-course-of-earth2019s-history
The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists led by our School...
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BBCs science preview of the year 2016 includes Leicester research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/bbcs-science-preview-of-the-year-2016-includes-leicester-research
Research into the Anthropocene has been mentioned in a BBC article covering the big upcoming science stories of 2016.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the...
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Geologists reveal omnipresent effects of human impact on Englands landscape
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/geologists-reveal-2018omnipresent2019-effects-of-human-impact-on-england2019s-landscape
‘Omnipresent’ signs demonstrating the effects of human impact on England’s landscape have been revealed by researchers from our Department of Geology.
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Study finds plastic is changing the behaviour of the world’s river sediment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/catherine-russell
A University of Leicester expert has led a study which has found plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave.
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Earth history opens a new chapter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/earth-history-opens-a-new-chapter
An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be...
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Study suggests human impact has created a plastic planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-suggests-human-impact-has-created-a-2018plastic-planet2019
Planet Earth’s oceans and lands will be buried by increasing layers of plastic waste by the mid-century due to human activity, according to...
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Writer Robert MacFarlane to speak at event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/writer-robert-macfarlane-to-speak-at-event
Revered British writer Robert MacFarlane will be delivering the free public Annual Creative Writing Lecture supported by Santander Universities on...
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Research shows human impact forms striking new pattern in Earths global energy flow
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-shows-human-impact-forms-2018striking-new-pattern2019-in-earth2019s-global-energy-flow
The impact humans have made on Earth in terms of how we produce and consume resources has formed a ‘striking new pattern’ in the planet’s global...