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Earth Sciences

Mary Anning Scholarship 2025

Five scholarships are now available with a cash award of £3,000 for new postgraduate students from under-represented backgrounds studying for our Earth Sciences MSc by Research degree

Geoscientist gives expert insight on ship crash environmental risks

A major search and rescue operation was launched by HM Coastguard after a cargo ship, thought to be carrying 15 containers of sodium cyanide, collided with an oil tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military off the coast of northern England last week, involving expert analysis from Royal Holloway.

Study finds pipeline blasts released record-shattering amount of methane into the Nord Stream

The rupture of Europe’s Nord Stream gas pipelines two years ago resulted in the planet’s largest human-caused release of methane; new study finds.

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