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624 results for 'global food environment'

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AV providing skills for life

Published
6 February 2023
Categories
University
Business & Economy
Working with business

Offering lifelong opportunities to learn new skills and prepare for changing career demands is a key ambition of the AV.

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Hydropower without the environmental impact

Published
16 January 2023
Categories
Global
Environment
Science

Scientists have analysed data from nearly three million rivers across the globe to identify where hydropower stations could be sited with limited environmental impacts.

William Glacier

Underwater tsunamis created by glacier break-up

Published
22 November 2022
Categories
Science
Environment

Scientists lucky enough to be in the “right place at the right time” witnessed a giant lump of ice breaking away from the William Glacier in Antarctica, a process known as calving.

Tropical forest

'Decade of action' to restore world's forests

Published
17 November 2022
Categories
Science
Global
Environment

Leading researchers, including AV academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests.

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'Communicate smarter' about climate change action

Published
10 November 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Science
Environment

Policy analysts and planners will be able to “communicate smarter” about climate change action by using a new online decision-support tool which has been launched at COP27.

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Scientists and engineers champion building ventilation

Published
8 November 2022
Categories
Working with business
Science
Global
Health

A campaign promoting the role of better building ventilation to support health and wellbeing has been launched by a coalition of scientists and engineering bodies.

Fishing camp on the Ikelemba River, DRC

Congo peatlands could release billions of tonnes of carbon

Published
2 November 2022
Categories
Science
Environment
Global

The world’s largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago, new research has revealed.