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Dec 06, 2012

Our universities must speak English

The following article was written by Associate Professor Leandro Tessler, internationalisaton adviser to the Rector of the State University of Campi...
Dec 06, 2012

Researchers investigate impacts of climate change on rare tropical plants

Research led by the University of York has found that the impacts of climate change on rare plants in tropical mountains will vary considerably from s...
Dec 03, 2012

Removing sea defences may reduce impact of coastal flooding

A study involving a scientist from the University of Southampton, which shows that ensuring continued flood protection for low lying coastal areas ma...
Nov 27, 2012

Southampton professor calls for harder choices to be made on climate change adaptation

Uncertainty about how much the climate is changing is not a reason to delay preparing for the harmful impacts of climate change says Professor Robert ...
Nov 23, 2012

An Ascendant Asia-Pacific: International Higher Education in the 21st Century

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will host the 8th Annual Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) Conference and Exhibi...
Nov 22, 2012

Praise for York project to encourage tuberculosis patients to quit smoking

The BUPA Foundation has awarded a high commendation prize for research led by the University of York into effective ways of helping tuberculosis patie...
Nov 20, 2012

Unlocking ancient rice secrets to overcome rainfall extremes

Researchers from the UK, USA and India, led by scientists at the University of York, are embarking on a major four-year project which aims to develop ...
Nov 19, 2012

Scientists pioneer method to predict environmental collapse

Scientists at the University of Southampton are pioneering a technique to predict when an ecosystem is likely to collapse, which may also have potenti...
Nov 15, 2012

New dating of sea-level records reveals rapid response between ice volume and polar temperature

An international team of scientists, led by Eelco Rohling, Professor of Ocean and Climate Change at the University of Southampton, has developed a ne...