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Scientists develop a novel strategy for sustainable post-lithium-ion batteries
6 January 2022
Scientists astounded by performance of sustainable batteries with far-reaching implications for e-vehicles and devices.
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Scientists develop a novel strategy for sustainable post-lithium-ion batteries
6 January 2022
Scientists astounded by performance of sustainable batteries with far-reaching implications for e-vehicles and devices.
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Urban gardens are a dependable food source for pollinators through the year
5 January 2022
Gardens in cities provide a long and continuous supply of energy-rich nectar from March to October, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.
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Scientists model the Wheel of Time world and find climate change still exists millennia into the future
22 December 2021
Scientists from the University of Bristol and Sussex have run climate simulations of the Wheel of Time world, whose season finale airs on Amazon Prime on Christmas Eve.
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Cabot biologist awarded New Phytologist Tansley Medal
20 December 2021
Dr Tommaso Jucker, a NERC Independent Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, has won the 2020 New Phytologist Tansley Medal, an annual award that recognises an outstanding contribution to plant science by an early career researcher.
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Source of large rise in emissions of unregulated ozone destroying substance identified
14 December 2021
New research, led by the University of Bristol and Peking University, has discovered that emissions coming from China of the ozone-destroying chemical, dichloromethane, have more than doubled over the last decade.
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Bristol among UK’s most sustainable universities, rankings find
13 December 2021
Bristol has been named as one of the most sustainable universities in the country.
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Silvopasture could tackle Colombian Amazon’s high deforestation rates and help achieve COP26 targets
8 December 2021
Silvopastoral farming, where trees and forage plants are planted in livestock pasture, may support biodiversity and offer solutions to high deforestation rates, according to a new University of Bristol-led study that investigated the effects of the farming method across farms in Colombia, South America.
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Newly discovered fish songs demonstrate reef restoration success
8 December 2021
Whoops, croaks, growls, raspberries and foghorns are among the sounds that demonstrate the success of a coral reef restoration project.
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New £10m centre set to drive digital futures towards fair and sustainable ways of life
30 November 2021
Digital technologies are transforming everyday life and bold claims are being made about how intelligent robots, autonomous vehicles and the ‘metaverse’ will define the future.
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People want a better world after the COVID-19 pandemic but don’t believe it will really happen
29 November 2021
People strongly favour a fairer and more sustainable way of life in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite not thinking it will actually materialise or that others share the same progressive wishes, according to new research which sheds intriguing light on what people have missed most and want for the future.
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