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• Trading places: Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientist swaps roles with parliamentarian for Royal Society Pairing Scheme 2025

  Date: 21 Mar 2025

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ environmental health expert to spend next week working in Parliament

• UK researchers join UN led collaboration to measure methane emissions from Nord Stream Pipeline Leak – largest ever leak of methane recorded

  Date: 17 Jan 2025

  /news/2025/january/nord-stream-methane-1-770

  Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientists at the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) have contributed to a study of methane emissions from the...

• Leicester and Leicestershire can breathe easy as university unveils pollen monitor

  Date: 25 Apr 2024

  /news/2024/april/pollen-monitor

  The new Swisens Poleno sampler was launched on the roof of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s George Davies Centre.

• Exposure to air pollution associated with increase in sedentary time, study finds

  Date: 9 Jan 2024

  /news/2024/january/pollution

  Long-term exposure to current levels of UK air pollution has been found to be associated with an annual increase of up to 22 minutes of sedentary...

• How Leicester is driving the move from climate talk into climate action

  Date: 6 Dec 2023

  /news/2023/december/climate-talk-action

  Professor Sarah Davies, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at Leicester, discusses the importance of COP28 and...

• Leicester’s commitment to sustainability leads to world rankings rise

  Date: 5 Dec 2023

  /news/2023/december/qs-sustainability-rankings

  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ has shot up more than 100 places in a league table which ranks the sustainable credentials of universities around the...

• £1.5m funding to create ‘Digital Twin’ model to reduce methane emissions

  Date: 4 Dec 2023

  /news/2023/december/methane-tropical-wetlands

  A ‘Digital Twin’ for methane emissions from tropical wetlands will be supported by funding to Dr Robert Parker from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ...

• Dangers of atmospheric pollution in the workplace to be highlighted at free event

  Date: 23 Oct 2023

  /news/2023/october/mattioli-woods

  Leicestershire’s industry and business leaders are being invited to a Â鶹ÊÓƵ event that could be good for their employees’ health.

• New exercise app using space data aims to help those with long-term health conditions

  Date: 21 Sep 2023

  /news/2023/september/p-step

  A personalised new exercise app for people with long-term health conditions including heart and lung disease and diabetes is set to be piloted by...

• A team of UK scientists have been monitoring the devastating smoke plume in Canada and North America

  Date: 12 Jun 2023

  /news/2023/june/nceo-wildfire-monitoring

  A team of scientists from the National Centre for Earth Observation, based at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has been monitoring the devastating...