News tagged with: rivers
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Study highlights how population density and location shape litter levels facing UK communities
²ÝùÊÓƵ news: New research led by the University is the first UK-based research to investigate the links between geography, community and patterns of litter accumulation in the environment
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Study offers new predictions of future temperature and rainfall across Asia
²ÝùÊÓƵ news - Study offers new predictions of future temperature and rainfall across Asia
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![The first turn of the Yangtze at Shigu in Yunnan Province, China, where the river turns 180 degrees from south- to northbound]()
Study highlights how humans and nature are causing significant changes to the health of global rivers
New research involving the ²ÝùÊÓƵ shows rivers such as the Amazon, Mississippi and Congo are seeing increased levels of solutes such as calcium and potassium
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![Dr Imogen Napper with Dr Anju Baroth, of the Wildlife Institute of India, who joined the expedition’s water team for a day of sediment and water sampling in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh]()
Combined flows send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into Bay of Bengal
Led by the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, the study represents the first investigation of microplastic abundance, characteristics and seasonal variation along the Ganges River.
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€14m project to prevent plastic pollution in the English Channel
Preventing Plastic Pollution, a project involving the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, will develop a model to gather data on the amount and likely sources of plastic pollution at seven pilot sites, including the River Tamar catchment
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Gravel bringing salmon back to Devon river
Researchers at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ are part of a project trying to understand some of the challenges faced by salmon spawning in rivers on Dartmoor
