by Rei Takver | Mar 4, 2024 12:52PM | News, Sheffield
A new report on UK rivers has found Sheffield’s River Don is in “poor” health, with ongoing pollution from sewage discharge and urban runoff the main concerns. The pollution poses an urgent threat to wildlife, particularly aquatic plants such as algae. “It’s...
by Rei Takver | Feb 26, 2024 11:46AM | News, Uncategorized
A charity that provides security for Jewish groups has reported a 650% increase in antisemitic incidents in South Yorkshire since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israeli civilians. The incidents, reported by charity Community Security Trust UK (CST UK), include eggs...
by Rei Takver | Feb 19, 2024 5:02PM | News
After announcements that a chaplain who has served in Gaza would be coming to the University of Sheffield campus this week, a group of students and community activists staged a peaceful protest aimed at preventing him from doing so. “We refuse to allow Deutsch...
by Rei Takver | Feb 19, 2024 2:13PM | News
Plants are capable of making even smarter choices about how to treat their friends and foes than ever previously thought, new research from the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield has found. A study published last month in Nature found plants can choose to starve out...
by Rei Takver | Dec 8, 2023 3:27PM | News, Uncategorized
Sheffield City Council Leader Tom Hunt has written a letter calling on Defra to stop the “destructive practice” of grouse moor burning, which caused a huge pall of toxic smoke to blanket Sheffield this autumn. Moorland burning does huge damage to our uplands. It...
