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The central north Amazon, with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural savannas and vast and important indigenous territories, was not previously considered as being the most affected by climate change. However, this region, which is considered critical to Amazonia’s cultural and biodiversity wealth, has unexpectedly found itself at the forefront of rapid growth in climate extremes, a new study reveals.

A virtual guide providing deeper insight into the history of moving images on display at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum (BDCM) has gone live this week. Visitors to the museum on the University of Exeter campus can access the guide from their smartphones and enjoy audio tours, additional information on exhibits, and a curated selection of favourite artefacts chosen by staff and volunteers.

A new £2.7 million project deploying state of the art listening equipment in the Celtic Sea, to create an interactive map of marine mammal behaviour, has been launched by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, in partnership with Celtic Sea Power and the University of Exeter.

An Exeter Professor has been awarded a prestigious award for his contributions to the practice and application of Operational Research (OR). Professor Martin Pitt, Emeritus Professor of Applied Healthcare Modelling and Data Science at the University of Exeter Medical School, has been awarded the prestigious Beale Medal by The Operational Research Society. The award recognised Professor Pitt’s pioneering work in healthcare modelling and analytics.

A new training programme funded by Wellcome and involving the University of Exeter will train the next generation of experts to tackle the growing global problem of fungal disease.

As thousands of children start secondary school experts have called for children to be given more opportunities for independence before they hit adolescence. New research, from the Outdoor Play Research Centre, of almost 9,000 children and young people across England found that greater independence was not automatically associated with better wellbeing.

The University of Exeter has collaborated with Google DeepMind, becoming among the first researchers in the world to test a new platform which contain predictions for the effects of 9 billion genetic variants – every single letter change in the genome. Exeter academics tested AlphaGenome Atlas, the most comprehensive catalogue to date to predict how genetic changes impact molecular biology.

Universities and employers have today come together behind a major new plan to help get graduates into good jobs, and to provide lifelong careers support. Published by Universities UK (UUK) with support from Pearson and the British Chambers of Commerce, the Future Jobs Roadmap sets out a series of steps for universities, business and government to take to better support graduates into work.

Landmark new research from The Earthshot Prize and the University of Exeter’s Green Futures Solutions team, published today, reveals 51 environmental solutions that can trigger rapid and transformative change to repair our planet within the next five years. After a northern summer of extreme heat and fire, and as the world prepares for an unprecedented El Nino, the research provides a new, unifying agenda for positive action.

Subsidies for emerging technology that allows seafood to be produced on land would boost the UK’s food security as well as deliver significant climate benefits, new research shows. A new study in the Journal of Cleaner Production sets out how the UK’s plans to boost the environment through 30,000 hectares of new woodland would reduce farmland and food production, with the production of animal proteins hardest hit.