A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

Fewer than two in every 100 packed lunches eaten by children in English primary schools meet nutritional standards, according to a major survey. Although the amount of sugary food in lunchboxes ...

Above Sydgletscher looking to Bowdoin Fjord, at Qaanaaq, north-west Greenland An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometres of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three ...

World War II-style rationing could be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds. In a paper published today in the journal ‘Ethics, Policy and ...

The central estimate of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C is 130 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and will be exhausted in a little more than three years at current levels of emissions. The latest ...

Women have a 50 per cent higher chance than men of receiving the wrong initial diagnosis following a heart attack, according to a new study by the University of Leeds. Using the UK national heart ...

Legislation to restrict supermarket sales of foods high in fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) has led to a marked reduction in purchases, according to the first ever independent analysis. The research, which ...

Ecologists can find no evidence Japanese knotweed causes significant structural damage. Automatically refusing mortgages on properties where Japanese knotweed is found is out of proportion to the risk ...

The University of Leeds is ranked 123rd in the new Times Higher Education World University Rankings, moving up six places from last year and securing its highest position for more than a decade. Out ...

Scientists at the University of Leeds have created a new form of gold which is just two atoms thick – the thinnest unsupported gold ever created. The researchers measured the thickness of the gold to ...

The first participants have taken part in a ground-breaking research trial that aims to save lives by improving the early diagnosis of lung cancer. People attending lung health checks in Yorkshire and ...

The UK has 4 million more dogs than previously estimated, with regional hotspots in Telford, Darlington and Harrogate, new research shows. The study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, found that ...