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2020
11
December
2020
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16:00
Europe/London
Christmas Day is going to look very different for a lot of people this year, but there are also positive changes to indulge in, especially when considering what to eat for Christmas dinner and how to cook it.
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26
November
2020
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12:04
Europe/London
Announcing a significant step-change in our move towards sustainable forms of energy at the University.
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23
November
2020
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09:00
Europe/London
Emissions from ship exhausts can have a major impact on air pollution, weather and climate, however until relatively recently these have been largely unregulated, particularly in international waters.
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18
November
2020
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21:00
Europe/London
An international coalition of leading climate research universities will issue its first declaration ahead of the G20 Summit on 21 and 22 November 2020.
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11
November
2020
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19:01
Europe/London
Chemical engineers have successfully manipulated carbon nitride to use sunlight to synthesize fluorine-based molecules, which are key building blocks of pharmaceutical products in a breakthrough on the path to the ‘holy grail’ of zero waste industry ...
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30
October
2020
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18:00
Europe/London
Specially-adapted drones have been gathering data from never-before-explored volcanoes that will enable local communities to better forecast future eruptions.
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27
October
2020
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19:00
Europe/London
Fracking operations at a site in Blackpool, UK, have caused an unintended release of methane gas into the atmosphere to the equivalent environmental cost of 142 trans-Atlantic flights according to new research.
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04
August
2020
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10:47
Europe/London
Rice as a staple food source has been shown to contribute to prolonged low-level arsenic exposure leading to thousands of avoidable premature deaths per year.
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16
July
2020
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09:30
Europe/London
A leading group of University of Manchester academics are imploring policy makers to use the UK’s post-pandemic recovery as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead a positive green revolution.
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16
June
2020
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13:57
Europe/London
New research focusing on the UK and Sweden, demonstrates just how far even ‘climate progressive’ nations are from meeting our international commitments to avoid dangerous climate change.
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12
June
2020
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09:34
Europe/London
New climate research has stated that urgent action on emissions from existing ships is the key to tackling shipping’s impact on climate change.
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26
May
2020
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14:00
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has announced that it will end investments in fossil fuel reserve and extraction companies by 2022, and ‘decarbonise’ all investments by 2038.
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06
May
2020
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10:20
Europe/London
Traffic pollution for most parts of the UK is plummeting thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown but more urban ozone – a dangerous air pollutant which can cause airway inflammation in humans - is probably being generated, say experts from The University of ...
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30
April
2020
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19:01
Europe/London
An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin layer covering just one square metre.
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17
April
2020
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10:07
Europe/London
New research has shown that crops facing drought conditions can become more resilient to climate change by understanding what is happening in the soil below.
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24
March
2020
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10:27
Europe/London
A collaborative research project between the Universities of Manchester, Utrecht, and Durham, and the National Oceanography Centre has revealed for the first time how submarine sediment avalanches can transport microplastics from land into the deep o...
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2019
17
December
2019
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15:54
Europe/London
A new research paper provides a significant new insight into our understanding of uranium biogeochemistry and could help with the UK’s substantial nuclear legacy.
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22
November
2019
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13:51
Europe/London
The Labour Party’s manifesto for the 2019 general election lays out a plan for transforming British society and the economy to address climate change. The “green industrial revolution” calls for massive investment in renewable energy and low-carbon i...
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23
September
2019
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09:00
Europe/London
Researchers are using the latest climate science to help local authorities calculate their carbon budget and cut down on emissions in the midst of the current climate crisis.
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20
September
2019
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11:40
Europe/London
Two centuries have passed since Manchester established itself as the centre of the global cotton trade. Known as ‘Cottonopolis’, the city was using a third of the world’s cotton production at the height of its textile boom.
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20
September
2019
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10:09
Europe/London
EXPERT COMMENT: We’re constantly encouraged to think of the next big climate summit, conference or protest as the most important one, the one that is about to make the all-important breakthrough. The UN’s Climate Action Summit on September 23 in New ...
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18
September
2019
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16:36
Europe/London
Air quality research in Manchester has received a significant boost with the announcement of funding from two programmes, totalling nearly £2m.
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18
September
2019
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14:15
Europe/London
Across the UK, Local Authorities, and Devolved Administrations, are seeking to use their planning powers to block the development of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. This is against UK Government policy. Here, Dr Sarah Mander looks at what all o...
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17
September
2019
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11:50
Europe/London
Professor Jonatan Pinkse on global businesses and their adaptation to climate crisis requirements.
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02
July
2019
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16:00
Europe/London
The University of Manchester today joins the Government in its declaration of a ‘climate emergency’ and reaffirms our position and commitment to being a world-leader in sustainable development.
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02
May
2019
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13:02
Europe/London
Researchers from The University of Manchester and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are racing to understand how microplastics are transported to the deep-sea floor in an effort to combat the growing ecological problem.
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16
April
2019
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12:30
Europe/London
A new spectacular jumping spider has been discovered and named in honour of Eric Carle, the famous author of children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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15
April
2019
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16:00
Europe/London
New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day.
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25
February
2019
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15:00
Europe/London
A large spider which resembles a black widow is spreading rapidly across the world – including the UK – threatening native wildlife species, warn German and British scientists.
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12
February
2019
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12:38
Europe/London
A University of Manchester scientists are at the forefront of the fight to protect cold water fish from the effects of crude oil spills from offshore oil rigs.
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