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Minister is Climate Ambassador number 1,000
The Minister for Early Years, Stephen Morgan MP, who leads on sustainability at the Department for Education, has become the UK’s 1,000th Climate Ambassador. The Climate Ambassadors programme, regionally hosted by the University of Leeds and funded by the government, links experts working on climate and sustainability with education professionals to provide them with free...
Enhancing weather warnings in Ghana
The University of Leeds is collaborating with institutions in Ghana to combat climate challenges and nurture the next generation of scientists. Researchers are working to improve storm prediction for Ghana's energy sector, developing and deploying new ground-based observation systems for lightning. The energy sector in Ghana will benefit from tailored warnings as it is vulnerable...
Damaging UK winter storms driven by swirling polar vortex miles above Earth
Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists. A team of researchers led by the University of Leeds has pinpointed a new reason for winter storm clusters such as the trio...
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Scenarios Forum 2025: Making climate conferences better for the planet
Academic conferences can act as a vehicle to advance climate action — but they also come at an environmental cost. Many participants travelling to a...
The tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement: COP30, failure, and renewal
The Conference of the Parties in Belém, Brazil, this November (COP30) will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement (COP21 in 2015), but where,...
Turning waste into energy: Our journey in biohydrogen product
Uganda’s capital Kampala, like most cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, is faced with a significant burden of poorly managed waste which is having detrimental effects on...