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Bristol named 12th most sustainable university in the world
10 December 2024
The University of Bristol is the 12th most sustainable university in the world, according to the 2025 QS World Sustainability Rankings.
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- A project investigating effects of ageing on circadian rhythms awarded £4.4 million BBSRC funding 12 December 2024 The research programme CircardiAgeing has been awarded £4,456,282 by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate the role of circadian rhythms and clock excitability in healthy ageing.
- Child asthma deaths linked to air pollution, new report finds 12 December 2024 Of the 54 children who died of asthma between 2019 and 2023, more than 90 per cent were exposed to air pollution levels above World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, according to a new report published today [12 December] by the University of Bristol’s National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) team. The report uses the NCMD’s unique data on all child deaths in England to examine deaths due to asthma or anaphylaxis between April 2019 and March 2023.
- Smoking tobacco from childhood can cause premature heart damage 11 December 2024 Two-thirds of children who started tobacco smoking at 10 years of age continued until their mid-twenties, significantly increasing their risk of early heart damage
- Pioneering research reveals growing dangers and repression of climate activism globally 11 December 2024 A new report has uncovered the many risks of participating in climate and environmental protests across the world – and how more countries are criminalising and repressing this activity in a bid to keep it in check.
- New research unlocks jaw-dropping evolution of lizards and snakes 11 December 2024 A ground-breaking University of Bristol study has shed light on how lizards and snakes -the most diverse group of land vertebrates with nearly 12,000 species - have evolved remarkably varied jaw shapes, driving their extraordinary ecological success.
- New targets for diabetic kidney disease could prevent end stage kidney failure 10 December 2024 New potential therapeutic targets have been identified for diabetic kidney disease (DKD) - the leading cause of kidney failure in the world - that could see patients treated with new gene and drug therapies preventing the disease’s progression into end stage kidney failure. The study is published in Nature Communications.
- Bristol named 12th most sustainable university in the world 10 December 2024 The University of Bristol is the 12th most sustainable university in the world, according to the 2025 QS World Sustainability Rankings.
- Patients to help set the agenda for food allergy research 10 December 2024 Food allergies affect one in five children in the UK. To help set the priorities for future research, University of Bristol researchers are asking children and young people with food allergies, their parents, and health care professionals who care for them for their views.
- Climate change impacting freshwater fish species, study finds 9 December 2024 Freshwater fish populations that dwell nearer the poles are outperforming their equatorial counterparts, researchers have found.
- New report suggests trust still broken in policing violence against women 9 December 2024 A report has revealed trust remains a key issue in the policing of violence against women and girls in Black and minoritised communities – and this type of crime is much less likely to result in offenders being charged compared to other offences.
