During Welcome Week, we'll be offering students the opportunity to enjoy this spectacular documentary from the world’s leading natural historian. David Attenborough draws on a lifetime of knowledge to ...

Careers with this subject MSc Sustainable Environmental Management has proved very attractive to employers because of the vocational relevance of the teaching programme and it tackling the ...

Feeding a growing global population while reducing carbon emissions and maintaining biodiversity is one of the major challenges of our time. Our programme is designed to encourage holistic engagement ...

This ResM will provide you with the opportunity to undertake substantial independent research alongside scientists working at the forefront of innovation in terrestrial and aquatic food systems in the ...

University of Plymouth news: New research led by the University found 21% of the global ocean had experienced a reduction in the depth of its photic zones, which are home to 90% of all marine life, ...

How mushrooms become magic. Researchers in our School of Biological and Marine Sciences are examining why fungi evolve psychedelic properties ...

Chlorine disinfectant is no more effective than water at killing off superbug New research explores the impact of using recommended chlorine chemicals to remove ...

A drug used to treat agitation in people with dementia - mirtazapine - is no more effective than a placebo, and might even increase mortality, according to a new study published in The Lancet.

Fish fingers like you've never seen them before This National Fish and Chip Day (6 June), find out more about the Plymouth Fish Finger – a project to support local fishers, get sustainable food to ...

More than 700,000 microscopic fibres could be released into wastewater during each use of a domestic washing machine, with many of them likely to pass through sewage treatment and into the environment ...

At the dawn of the millennium, a group of eminent scientists began compiling a list of the threats they felt were most likely to impact the world’s rocky shorelines over the coming quarter of a ...