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• Research puts lens on a new vision for land use decision making

  Date: 8 Jun 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/landscape-decisions

  University of Leicester-led research provides a guide to better and more transparent decisions for our land, conclusions from research as part of...

• Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes

  Date: 17 May 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/south-africa-lakes

  Arid regions of South Africa were once home to lakes, a University of Leicester-led study has confirmed.

• New Leicester exhibition highlights housing injustice in London borough

  Date: 3 May 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/real-faces

  A new exhibition about the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has launched at University of Leicester today (Tuesday, 2 May).

• New satellite imagery reveals impact on urban landscape in wake of tragic earthquake

  Date: 20 Feb 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/earthquake-satellite-imagery

  Earth observation scientists at University of Leicester release satellite imagery to help inform humanitarian efforts in Turkey and Syria

• Forests recovering from logging act as a source of carbon

  Date: 10 Jan 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/forests-logging-carbon

  New study led by University of Leicester PhD student and Imperial College London researchers contradicts previous assumptions.

• Drying Congo peatlands threaten to accelerate climate change

  Date: 7 Nov 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/congo-cop27

  Study reveals how the Congo peatlands changed from being a major store of carbon to a source of damaging carbon dioxide emissions.

• Newly appointed Archbishop of Cardiff discusses time as student at University of Leicester

  Date: 24 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/archbishop-cardiff

  Leicester alumnus and newly appointed Archbishop of Cardiff, Mark O’Toole, has spoken about his time at the University.

• River researcher awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

  Date: 3 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fulbright-rivers

  A Leicester expert in river systems has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to expand her research in the USA.

• Ceremony late show sees Gloria make University of Leicester history

  Date: 26 Jul 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 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...