News tagged with: sustainability
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Helping smallholder cotton farmers to sow the seeds of sustainable cotton production
The Â鶹´«Ã½ is working with partners in Pakistan to develop machine learning and AI for the early disease detection of major cotton disease.
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University helps to show how residents and businesses can achieve net-zero
Academics from the Â鶹´«Ã½ are part of a consortium that led the development of the Devon Carbon Plan, which aims to enable the county to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest
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University shortlisted for research and community impact at Green Gown Awards
Â鶹´«Ã½ news: University is shortlisted for national award for excellence in sustainability across higher and further education.
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Company makes significant progress with raspberry harvesting robots
Â鶹´«Ã½ news: The robots developed by Fieldwork Robotics have been deployed commercially in two locations in Portugal.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ named among world’s top universities for marine excellence and climate action
The Â鶹´«Ã½ has been ranked among the top 5% of global universities in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022
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First UK charging network for electric maritime vessels launched in Â鶹´«Ã½
The Â鶹´«Ã½ has led a collaboration which has installed a series of high power DC electric charging stations around the Â鶹´«Ã½ Sound National Marine Park
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International call for greater appreciation and understanding of the world’s sand resources
Dr Ian Selby, Director of Sustainable Geoscience at the Â鶹´«Ã½, is among the authors on a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) into sand and sustainability
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University supports the UK’s most specialised Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator
The Â鶹´«Ã½ is among the founding partners of the Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator Programme, conceived by social enterprise and sustainability training outfit Bright Tide
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Taking action now can secure our future
Professor Camille Parmesan, from the Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s School of Biological and Marine Sciences, is a Coordinating Lead Author on a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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University invites local communities to apply for new collaborative research projects
The University launches the Get Involved Awards, which will bring together communities and researchers to co-create solutions to local issues and opportunities
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Study shows how temperate rainforests can aid the fight against climate change
Environmental scientists and ecologists at the Â鶹´«Ã½ showed that browsing behaviour by livestock is a major determinant of the expansion and connection of fragmented UK upland oak woodlands – so-called ‘temperate rainforests
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Creating net-zero visions of our future communities
The Net-Zero Visions for the Devon Climate Emergency project, being led by the Â鶹´«Ã½, unites community groups with creative professionals and net-zero transition experts
