Pages tagged with: sustainable-earth
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Biodiversity at a Crossroads | Research Festival 2020
University of Plymouth Research Festival 2020: Biodiversity at a Crossroads, investigating how interdisciplinary research responds to global environmental challenges. Monday 20 January 2020.
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Sustainable Earth 2021: Speakers
5 keynote presentations and 20 guest speakers will join Sustainable Earth 2021
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Workshops
Sustainable Earth 2021: Climate Emergency – The Race to Net Zero Carbon includes a selection of eleven workshops to choose from, presented by business, enterprise, community groups, and university staff sharing their climate action and initiatives.
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Sustainable Earth 2021: programme of events
Sustainable Earth 2021 offer a full two-day programme of keynote presentations, talks, workshops and marketplace sessions.
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Palm oil, avocados and…soil? Why you should care about dirt
Dr Will Blake, Palm oil, avocados and…soil? Why you should care about dirt
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Stay at home. Is it really that simple?
University of Plymouth: Dr Sana Murrani, Stay at home. Is it really that simple?
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Our final frontier: the land below ground
University of Plymouth Pioneers: Professor Iain Stewart, MBE. Our final frontier: the land below ground
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€2.5million project aims to develop sustainable soils from construction waste and by-products
The €2.5million ReCon Soil project, led by the University of Plymouth, brings together scientists, industry and educators to revolutionise how waste material from construction projects is managed
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Could fabricated soils be the key to global food security?
Experts from the University of Plymouth are working with the world-famous Eden Project to explore how recycled and waste material could be transformed and then reused in agriculture and other sectors
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Interdisciplinary approach the only way to address devastating effects of soil erosion
A study led by the University of Plymouth has shown traditional pastoralist communities – such as the Maasai in East Africa – are abundantly aware climate change and intensive grazing are having a marked effect on the resources they rely on for survival
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University soil research earns success at inaugural Tech South West Awards
FABSOIL, for which the University of Plymouth is working with the world-famous Eden Project, is exploring how recycled and waste material could be transformed and then reused in agriculture and other sectors
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International project aims to help communities address the effects of soil erosion
The University of Plymouth has received funding as part of a joint BBSRC-NERC Research Translation programme, and builds on the Jali ardhi (meaning ‘care for the land’ in Swahili) project
