“Unjustifiable environmental risk” leads to calls for worldwide moratorium on deep seabed mining
Scientists have called for a blanket worldwide moratorium on deep seabed mining – insisting the controversial emerging industry currently poses...
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Gender stereotypes in schools impact on girls and boys with mental health difficulties, study finds
Gender stereotypes mean that girls can be celebrated for their emotional openness and maturity in school, while boys are seen...
University of Exeter to lead groundbreaking international cyber law project
Experts from the University of Exeter, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan,...
Plastic pollution can kill variety of ocean embryos
High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows. Scientists...
Have your say on ambitious long term vision to redevelop St Luke’s Campus
A proposed vision to redevelop the University of Exeter’s St Luke’s Campus over the next 50 years will soon be...
“Significant work” needed to involve Black and Asian communities in environmental demonstrations, study says
“Significant work” is needed to ensure Black and Asian communities are more involved in environmental protests, a new report says....
Clear guidelines needed for synthetic data to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness study says
Clear guidelines should be established for the generation and processing of synthetic data to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness, a...
New project explores warfare in animal societies
A major new research project will investigate how and why groups of animals from the same species fight one another....
Cloud engineering could be more effective ‘painkiller’ for global warming than previously thought
Cloud “engineering” could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought – because of the increased cloud cover produced,...