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Cloud-based AI helps to reduce river pollution

A cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to detect blockages in sewers has shown an almost 90 per cent accuracy rate in a recent trial.

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Grow-your-own households eat more fruit and vegetables and waste less

Household fruit and vegetable production, in allotments and gardens, could be key to a healthy and food-secure population, a new study from the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ has found.
A photo of the exterior of the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's Sustainable Aviation Fuels Innovation Centre

University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ to be biggest green hydrogen producer and drive development of sustainable aviation fuels

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is set to produce more green hydrogen than any other UK research centre, thanks to new equipment that will support vital research to help decarbonise the aviation industry.

A person holding one disposable coffee cup and one reusable coffee cup

Study calls for reusable packaging users to join project to help prevent plastic waste

A new study from the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is looking for people in Yorkshire who have tried reusable packaging, to join a project to investigate ways to combat plastic waste.
Gell Street Pocket Park

Recycled pocket park opens to the public

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ has officially opened a new public pocket park, designed to bring nature to the doorstep of the University campus.