Fabric used to make what is believed to be the fastest swimsuit to ever go on the market was tested Leeds researchers who simulated conditions close to those experienced by elite swimmers. A team led by Sedimentologist Dr Jeff...read more

A total of 22 current students of the School attended the Vancouver Exploration Roundup last month. The meeting is one of the top 3 industry-facing events globally and attracted just short of 8,000 delegates from the mining and...read more

Man-made air pollution from North America causes Europe to lose 1.2 million tonnes of wheat a year, a new study has found. The research, led by the School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds and co-authored by the...read more

A new study shows that countries with high incomes and high carbon emissions do not achieve higher life expectancies than those with moderate incomes and lower carbon emissions. This finding challenges the assumption that human...read more

A new report on Uganda's emerging oil and gas industry says companies can improve their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to give fairer employment, compensation and land deals to communities. The report Seeking Benefits...read more

November 29th 2011: Investing 2% of a modern city's GDP in low carbon and energy efficient opportunities for ten years would reduce that city's carbon emission levels by 40% at no net cost, according to research by the Centre for...read more

The Sorby Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has been working with Speedo.read more