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Increased carbon emissions from the Amazon rainforest are due to weak law enforcement, new research suggests.Emissions from Amazonia increased substantially in 2019 and 2020 at the same time as large-scale, illegal deforestation was…

Patients living with one of the UK’s most common heart rhythm conditions are 50% less likely to die from a heart attack or stroke than they were at the start of the millennium, new research has found.Analysis of the health records of more…

Tickets are now on sale for the Ilkley Literature Festival, which is celebrating its 50th year with a headline slot by Leeds Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage. A host of University of Leeds researchers and writers will feature in the 50th…

A spin-out company from the University of Leeds has received investment to accelerate the development of AI dentistry products. Northern Gritstone has led a £2m seed funding round in Mimetrik, alongside participation from angel investors…

Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research. For a long time, tropical forests have acted as a carbon sink, taking…

Consumers in the richer, developed nations will have to accept restrictions on their energy use if international climate change targets are to be met, warn researchers.A big challenge in planning emission reductions is to identify the…

Professor Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Leeds, has been elected to the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).The international body brings universities, students and staff…

A historically significant Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that was barred from leaving the UK has been bought by the University of Leeds Libraries.The manuscript, which was handwritten by Coleridge in 1792, was put under export bar by the…

A group of international and UK-based students who spent up to four years learning online together met in-person for the first time at their graduation.Students from the online Engineering Management MSc attended their graduation ceremony…

Leeds has a key role to play in driving innovation and investment in the North, according to business and political leaders.The success of research commercialisation business Northern Gritstone was celebrated at the company’s second AGM,…