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Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change
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 likelihood of Southern California’s deadly fires by at least 2-3 times
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Brands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/brands/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 WIPO’s Global Brand Database expands http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en/ Now includes the entire United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) collection.
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Jim King
https://le.ac.uk/people/jim-king
The academic profile of Dr Jim King, Associate Professor of Education (Applied Linguistics), Director of Research & Enterprise at University of Leicester
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Banned Books and Academic Freedom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/banned-books-and-academic-freedom/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 Sage has launched a new collection of free-to-read research of articles from its academic journals highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional...
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Carrie Crockett: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cmc62/page/2/
I am a postgraduate Ph.D. researcher working in connection with the Carceral Archipelago project. My work focuses on the Russian Far East and Sakhalin during the imperial era.
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World-leading consciousness scientist to deliver Sluckin Lecture 2026
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/sluckin-lecture-anil-seth-leicester
Anil Seth, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the science of consciousness, will deliver this year’s prestigious Sluckin lecture at the University of Leicester.
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New book breaks barrier between students and modern research in mathematics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/29-garrett-book
In recent years mathematicians, armed with global internet (which simplifies collaboration), and powerful computers (used for numerical simulations, hypothesis testing, routine algebraic manipulations, etc.
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Leicester named as one of the world’s best universities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/leicester-named-as-one-of-the-worlds-best-universities
University of Leicester retains its spot as one of the top 25 UK universities featured in the prestigious list, after being ranked 23rd in the list of UK universities featured in the top 200.
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Better peatland management could cut half a billion tonnes of carbon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/peatland-emissions-nature
However, because large populations rely on these peatlands for their livelihoods, it may not be realistic to expect all agricultural peatlands to be fully returned to their natural condition in the near future.
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NC3Rs guidelines
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/animal-welfare/the-3rs/nc3rs-guidelines
Find guidelines for how to report using animals in research in publications and other outputs from the NC3Rs.