Environment and Life Sciences News and Events

A group of six students and two lecturers visited the set of BBC2's Springwatch for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the outside broadcast operation.

Research from the University of Salford has shown that a gruesome ‘Alien-like’ parasite which eats the tongues of fish and then inhabits their mouths is more harmful in areas subjected to ‘predatory’ overfishing.

Sarah Davies from Wigan has beaten 60,000 people to become the only person from Europe in the running to become ambassador of the world.

Students on our wildlife courses spent two weeks at a research station in the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica.

Twenty years’ worth of studies into the rates of parasitic infection among pregnant women have found that women in the West are far more likely than their Chinese counterparts to carry organisms which have been linked to miscarriages and infant physical and mental damage.

A film made by a student on the University of Salford’s MA course in Wildlife Documentary has won a prestigious Royal Television Society North West award presented at a special ceremony on Saturday at Manchester’s Hilton Hotel.

The Williams family have two reasons to celebrate with both mum Geraldine and son Paul graduating from the University of Salford.