Royal Holloway, University of London

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Royal Holloway, University of London is a university that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

River Thames polluted by high levels of microplastics

Three of London’s major institutes, Royal Holloway, the Natural History Museum (NHM) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), have been collaborating on research into how high levels of microplastics are impacting the River Thames, including seriously affecting its inhabitants, the water column and shoreline. Separate new studies by Postgraduate students Alex McGoran, Katharine Rowley […]

Royal Holloway, University of London · 23 Jul 2020

3 Oct 2019

The impact of communal irrigation systems on earthquake-triggered landslides in Indonesia

New research from Royal Holloway, University of London, has found that changes to the environment caused by human activity can promote earthquake-triggered landslides. The devastation caused by landslides in suburban parts of Palu, Indonesia, after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake last September took the region and the scientific community by surprise and demanded careful study to understand what happened.