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PGRs - apply for upto £500 to support your project

The next round of our biannual SPRING Competition is now open, with a deadline of 19 April 2024. SPRING - Supporting Postgraduate Research to Inspire the Next Generation is a postgraduate research funding competition developed by water@leeds which is open to all postgraduate research students whose research involves some aspect related to water. Maybe you work...

Climate change disrupts seasonal flow of rivers

Climate change is disrupting the seasonal flow of rivers in the far northern latitudes of America, Russia and Europe, posing a threat to water security and ecosystems, according to new research. A team of scientists led by the University of Leeds analysed historical data from river gauging stations across the globe and found that 21%...

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting and being replaced by vegetation

An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometres of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite records. The total area of ice loss is equivalent to the size of Albania and represents about 1.6 % of Greenland’s total ice and glacier...

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