News and events
Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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- An unusual fossil showing a series of spikes fused to a rib has been revealed to be the remains of the oldest ankylosaur ever found and the first from the African continent.
- Date:
- 23/09/2021
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- The University of Birmingham's College of Life and Environmental Sciences has introduced new undergraduate programmes in Human Sciences and Global Environmental Change & Sustainability.
- Date:
- 22/09/2021
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- A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme is yielding new insights into the complicated relationship between sea ice and climate change.
- Date:
- 09/09/2021
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- University of Birmingham experts are part of a new research programme investigating how air pollutants in indoor spaces such as homes, schools and workplaces can adversely affect human health.
- Date:
- 28/07/2021
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- One of the largest and most important finds of exquisitely preserved Jurassic echinoderms – spiny-skinned marine animals such as starfish and sea urchins has been excavated at a secret site in the Cotswolds.
- Date:
- 22/07/2021
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- More needs to be done to reduce UKs plastic recycling crisis as alternatives need to be find other than shipping the problem
- Date:
- 09/07/2021
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- Software to help towns and cities use street-planting to reduce citizens' exposure to air pollution has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.
- Date:
- 08/07/2021
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- An international team of scientists has used high-powered X-rays to show how an extinct dinosaur breathed.
- Date:
- 07/07/2021
- Date
- 27/10/2021
- Location:
- Zoom
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- Roundtable discussion of the entanglements and power relations at stake in histories of ecological extraction