Global
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Creating a drought to predict the Amazon 'tipping point'
An international research project in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is underway, exploring the effects of extreme drought to identify how to protect forests in the face of climate change.
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Forging collaboration through snow and ice
Next year, a team of scientists from Nepal, the UK and Norway will head to the notorious Khumbu Icefall, to drill into and take the temperature of the glacier at over 6000m altitude.
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Corals, communities and climate change
An international research project is examining which coral reefs are proving more resilient than others to the effects of a warmer and more acidic ocean caused by climate change.
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Vulnerable but resilient: Indigenous communities facing COVID-19
How indigenous populations were affected by, and responded to, COVID-19
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Keyhole surgery technology and training to reduce inequalities in healthcare
A team of surgeons, engineers and designers have designed a technology to make it easier to carry out abdominal keyhole surgery in remote and low resource locations.
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Sowing seeds of hope for Amazon conservation
Commerce and climate change have decimated 17% of the rainforest over the last 50 years - but communities are building it back from the soil upwards.
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From farming to the stars – reducing inequality through education
Read researcher Saul Phiri's inspiring story after an ambitious University of Leeds project transformed his future.
