Storm Eunice is in full flow as I write this and has already broken the record for the fastest ever gust recorded in England. Before the wind even really got going here…Read More >
Environment
Climate change from the global to the local: celebrating the team of unsung heroes behind our award-winning research
The University has been honoured with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize – considered to be the highest national honour in higher and further education – for our work on Tackling the…Read More >
CentAUR in 2021
Our institutional repository, CentAUR, hosts research outputs from the University of Reading. Users from around the world are able to access large numbers of full text articles, books, book chapters, theses…Read More >
Plants are flowering a month earlier – here’s what it could mean for pollinating insects
Plants are flowering about a month earlier in the UK due to climate change. That’s according scientists at the University of Cambridge, who recently analysed the first flowering dates of 406…Read More >
Mapping the Open Research landscape at the University of Reading
Dr Marcello De Maria, one of the University’s Open Research Champions, writes about the current landscape of Open Research and Open Access, and shares some important insights emerging from the…Read More >
Four surprising ways climate change is affecting people’s health in England and Wales
When you take age out of the equation, temperature-related deaths are on the decline in England and Wales. That’s according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). But…Read More >
Climate education – global change through local action
This year the theme set out by UNESCO for the International Day of Education (24th January) echoes the work we have been focusing on as a university. The notion of…Read More >
Time-of-use tariffs: A way to reduce electricity bills?
We’re all aware that we need to think about ways to reduce our energy use in to help tackle climate change, and with rising bills there’s an added incentive. This…Read More >
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands
The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were to completely collapse. And, worryingly, recent research suggests that its…Read More >
Moving Cocaine from the field to the streets: the cocaine supply chain in the Americas
There is a clear relationship between the expansion of unfettered free markets and participation in the drug trade. Neoliberal policies have led to increasing inequality, insecurity, and a general deterioration…Read More >