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Sub-Saharan Africa is the most food-insecure region in the world. Despite challenges of poverty and malnutrition, in many countries, people rely on agriculture not only for food – but also for their livelihoods. A new £2 million programme, Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa), will utilise interdisciplinary research to develop a new understanding of...
A major new study shows adding rock dust to farmland could remove the carbon dioxide equivalent of more than the current total emissions from global aviation and shipping combined. This is roughly equal to half of Europe’s current total emissions. The study, whose authors included Priestley Centre researcher Professor Steven Banwart, reveals how spreading finely...
Too expensive, pointless, and others should do more: a new study sheds light on the excuses for doing nothing that circulate in the public debate on climate change. Whilst the latest assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlight the need for urgent action, reasons to delay or avoid taking such steps remain prevalent....
A new study has examined spatial biodiversity patterns across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event (c. 252 million years ago). The Permo-Triassic mass extinction represents the most catastrophic event in the last 500 million years of evolutionary history and caused the loss of up to 95% of species because of a cocktail of volcanic effects including...
The poet, writer and visual artist Redell Olsen is the winner of the £15,000 DARE Art Prize 2020-21. The prize offers an artist the opportunity to produce new work in partnership with scientists at the University of Leeds, as well as staff and performers from Opera North. Professor Olsen will produce a song cycle and film...