News and events
Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
- Description
- Recognition for University of Birmingham PhD student
- Date:
- 10/03/2022
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- Ordinary potted house plants can potentially make a significant contribution to reducing air pollution in homes and offices, according to new research.
- Date:
- 07/03/2022
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- Education experts have created free educational resources to put sustainable fashion centre stage in the classroom.
- Date:
- 18/02/2022
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- A set of Triassic archosaur fossils, excavated in the 1960s in Tanzania, have been formally recognised as a distinct species, representing one of the earliest-known members of the crocodile evolutionary lineage.
- Date:
- 09/02/2022
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- Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them, new research has shown.
- Date:
- 21/01/2022
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- The collapse of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano resulted from long-term destabilising processes, and was not triggered by changes in the magmatic system that could have been detected by current monitoring.
- Date:
- 17/01/2022
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- Prisoners who are incarcerated in buildings located in green areas are less likely to engage in self-harming or violent behaviours, new research shows.
- Date:
- 13/01/2022
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- The fossil record, which documents the history of life on Earth, is heavily biased by influences such as colonialism, history and global economics, according to experts at the University of Birmingham.
- Date:
- 06/01/2022
- Date
- 21/09/2022
- Location:
- Zoom
- Description
- "Rethinking Empty Homes and Allocations in Social Housing"