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• 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).

• Satellite data reveals source of increased global atmospheric methane between 2020-2021

  Date: 27 Apr 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/satellite-data-methane

  New research into the causes of the unprecedented increase in global atmospheric methane in 2020 and 2021 uses data from the National Centre for...

• 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

• Fire and ice: the Antarctic volcanoes that hint at our climate future

  Date: 13 Jan 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-antarctica-volcanoes-climate

  Professor John Smellie, Honorary Professor in the School of Geology, Geography and the Environment, talks about his career and his love of the...

• 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.

• Double distinction for Leicester’s ‘Mr Antarctic Volcano’ in New Year Honours

  Date: 5 Jan 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-polar-medal

  University of Leicester volcanologist Professor John Smellie receives Polar Medal for the second time, from second monarch.

• University of Leicester commits to reverse biodiversity decline through worldwide Nature Positive Universities Alliance

  Date: 8 Dec 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/nature-positive

  The University of Leicester has been announced as one of the founding members of the Nature Positive Universities Alliance, continuing its...

• 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.

• Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form

  Date: 8 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fish-ph-fossils

  New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form.