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• Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues

  Date: 18/09/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/ig-nobel-zalasiewicz

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig...

• Study finds plastic is changing the behaviour of the world’s river sediment

  Date: 25/07/2023 00:00:00

  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.

• Our environment over a billion years: travel through time into Leicester’s deep past

  Date: 16/03/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/time-travelling-environmentalist

  Experts at the University of Leicester host an evening exploring landscape change and biodiversity in the city and county on Thursday 23 March

• Difficult Conversations: Mayor of Leicester to join expert panel to discuss making cities greener

  Date: 11/11/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/cities-future

  The Mayor of Leicester will join a public Q&A alongside University of Leicester experts to explore the relationship between cities and nature.

• River researcher awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

  Date: 03/08/2022 00:00:00

  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.

• The Cosmic Oasis: Leicester environment experts explore Earth’s biosphere in new popular science book

  Date: 20/06/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/cosmic-oasis

  Environment experts from the University of Leicester will explore human impact on our planet’s delicate biosphere in a new book.

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

  Date: 18/05/2022 00:00:00

  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...

• Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history

  Date: 04/11/2020 00:00:00

  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...

• Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene

  Date: 13/10/2019 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-thames-molluscs

  In the last few decades, the life of London’s River Thames has been transformed.

• World-renowned sociologist to deliver Anthropocene lecture

  Date: 16/05/2019 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/17-bruno-latour-anthropocene-lecture

  Professor Bruno Latour, the award-winning and renowned sociologist, philosopher and anthropologist, will deliver a lecture on the Anthropocene at...