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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.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/108/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Earth Day: National Space Centre launches Home Planet gallery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/home-planet

  The next generation of climate change superheroes discovered the importance of our home in space at the launch of a new National Space Centre gallery to coincide with Earth Day 2022 on Friday.

• Fellowship schemes

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/lias/fellowship-schemes

  Learn more about fellowship schemes within the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies.

• Sir David Attenborough highlights destruction of the natural world within a generation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/sir-david-attenborough-highlights-destruction-of-the-natural-world-within-a-generation

  Renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough opened a new £1.5million galleries wing at Attenborough Arts Centre – the building championed by his late brother Lord Attenborough.

• Research funding and partners

  https://le.ac.uk/brexit/research

  The EU has been an important source of funding for our research at the University of Leicester. We have seen in the past year the largest percentage increase in EU grant funding of any UK institution: up 72% to £6.7 million.

• Relive Leicester space scientists journey on BBCs Astronauts series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/relive-leicester-space-scientist2019s-journey-as-astronauts-returns

  From this weekend, you can relive the moments that led to a Leicester space scientist proving that she has what it takes to become an astronaut. The six-part BBC show ‘Astronauts: Have You Got What It Takes?’ will be re-run on BBC 2 at 10am every Saturday from 12 May.

• University welcomes Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/sri-lanka

  Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Manorie Mallikaratchy met students and colleagues from the University of Leicester.

• The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/28/the-platform-recordings-trains-planes-automobiles-and-volunteers/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020   In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.

• Why do a MOOC in Museum Studies?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2015/12/10/why-do-a-mooc-in-museum-studies/

  Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on December 10, 2015 Over 11,000 people signed up for the first run of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Behind the Scenes at the 21 st Century Museum , and they were overwhelmingly positive about their experience.