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Coral bleaching: Why did the butterflyfish stop fighting?

Our researchers spent 600 hours underwater to find out.

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Lancaster in UK top 3 for graduate employment

The Times and Sunday Times League Table 2019 has ranked Lancaster third in the UK for graduate employment prospects. Lancaster is also the highest ranked university in the North. 

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L-R: Professor Stephen Decent, Yaseen Noorani, and Lord Henley

Lord Henley marks Green GB week with Lancaster’s inventors and innovators

Lord Henley, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), visited Lancaster University as part of the UK Government’s first ‘Green GB’ week.
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New partnership to drive clean economic growth

Lancaster University partners with the Environmental Industries Commission to support innovation and grow businesses which are addressing the world’s environmental challenges.
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Born into care: Study uncovers scale of newborn babies in care proceedings in England

This first ever national study of newborn babies (under one week old) in the family justice system in England has revealed that in 2007/8, care proceedings were issued for 1,039 newborn babies (32% of all cases involving infant aged under 1 year). By 2016/17, this number had more than doubled at 2,447 newborns (42% of all infant cases).
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Largest ever genetic study of blood pressure

The largest ever genetic analysis of over one million people has identified 535 new genes associated with high blood pressure.
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Carbon emissions from Amazonian forest fires up to four times worse than feared

A large complex of wildfires affected one million hectares of central Amazonian forests in the 2015 El Niño event . Despite affecting an area more than five times the size of the Mendocino wildfires in California, these received little national or international media attention at the time
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Primary tropical forests are best but regrowing forests are also vital to biodiversity

Even after 40 years of recovery, secondary forests remain species and carbon-poor compared to undisturbed primary forests, a new study reveals.

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Take five minutes to experience our campus with our Virtual Open Day and discover what it’s like to live and learn at Lancaster University. Explore spaces to study, live and have fun - on campus and in the nearby City of Lancaster. 

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Top 10 and rising!

Top ten in all three UK league tables, we score particularly highly for student satisfaction and employability. Add in our unique colleges, community feel and international outlook, and you can see why our staff and students love being here.

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