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Cambridge funds revolutionary underground work

February 22, 2026
News
Nature recovery programme Cumbria Connect has received funding from a key conservation group for its research investigating the unexplained role played by underground fungal networks in woodland creation.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Botany, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Pathology, Policy, Soil Science
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‘Commercial seeds could threaten native wildflowers’ claim

October 18, 2025
News
Commercial seeds used to help revive meadowland and plant diversity could have the opposite effect on the British countryside, says a study by Durham University scientists.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Botany, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Genetics, Soil Science
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UK’s rarest reptile takes firmer hold in Devon

September 28, 2025
News
Conservation efforts to save Britain’s rarest native reptile have resulted in a 25% year on year increase in numbers at a key site in the west country.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Soil Science, Zoology
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Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem

August 14, 2025
News
Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pesticide detector in food production.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Earth & Environmental, Environment, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science, Medical/Health, Soil Science
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Volunteers’ lichen finds give conservation boost to rare rainforest

July 5, 2025
News
Citizen science volunteers have identified two rare lichens never before recorded in the north of England.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Policy, Soil Science
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Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report

June 28, 2025
News
Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, warns a new report.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Policy, Soil Science
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Critical alternatives

May 27, 2025
Insight
As the supply of rare earth elements becomes an increasing geopolitical issue, Akseli Mansikkamäki and his colleagues at the University of Oulu are developing molecules to address the challenge.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Forensics, Geology, Geophysics, Green Chemistry, Materials, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Soil Science
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Study unearths role of fertilisers in crop metals uptake

May 8, 2025
News
Animal based fertilisers ensure agriculture and water systems are less exposed to pollutants than those reliant on phosphate or sewage sludge, suggests a new study.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Environment, Food Science, Medical/Health, Soil Science
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Sustainable sensor guards plant health and feeds the soil

April 1, 2025
News
It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: technology that helps boost crop yields and then composts into the same soil to provide extra nutrients…
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Botany, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Food & Bev, Food Science, Soil Science
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Sea-savvy tech provides longest ever study of destructive water currents

December 16, 2024
News
Durham University scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in marine geoscience, using seabed seismographics to study the world’s strongest turbidity currents as they occur in one of the longest submarine...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Geophysics, Oceanography, Policy, Soil Science
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