News tagged with: rivers
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Study highlights how population density and location shape litter levels facing UK communities
ҹèÊÓƵ 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
ҹèÊÓƵ 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 ҹèÊÓƵ 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 ҹèÊÓƵ, 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 ҹèÊÓƵ, 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 ҹèÊÓƵ are part of a project trying to understand some of the challenges faced by salmon spawning in rivers on Dartmoor
