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Studying Palaeontology as an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham
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Posted 20 December 2019
The Bedfordshire town of Luton has come bottom of a league table of predicted city-wide air pollution concentrations among UK cities, according to new analysis by the Universities of Birmingham and Lancaster.
Posted 13 December 2019
A new paper has revealed an ancient trackway, found imprinted on a block of sandstone from the base of Hardraw Force Waterfall in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, is the oldest record of amphibian tracks in the UK.
Posted 07 November 2019
Plastic pollution beyond the world's oceans – Why quantifying plastic pollution in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems represents the next frontier
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Studying Geography at Birmingham
Geography and Environmental Science fieldwork
Geological mapping field trip
Forthcoming seminars and events
We run a number of seminar series' throughout the School with speakers both internal and external, on subjects ranging from human geography to atmospheric sciences.
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Equality and Diversity
Working towards equality