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Find out about the latest Biosciences news from the University of Sheffield.
pesticide

The pesticide paradox: creating an acceptable killer

Professor Lorraine Maltby explains how we can mitigate ecological harm by changing the way we think about our environment.

9 May 2022
A wind turbine in an oilseed rape field

Low-carbon energy grids could help rock dust absorb more CO2

Greener electricity grids could help us to use rock dust to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reach net zero much quicker, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Sheffield.

6 May 2022
Long tailed tit

£2.1m funding boost to help solve “long-standing evolutionary puzzlesâ€

Professor of Evolutionary Ecology Ben Hatchwell has been awarded more than £2.1m from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate how animals recognise desirable and undesirable social partners.

28 April 2022
Sugar beet at a farm in South East England, cultivated with basalt

Managing UK agriculture with rock dust could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed for net-zero, research shows

Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soils could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to reach net zero, according to a major new study led by scientists at the University of Sheffield.

25 April 2022

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