The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the…Read More >
climate change
Why COVID-19 has left the UK especially vulnerable to flooding this winter
Winter is here and, as a researcher who monitors flooding, I find it more daunting than ever. The UK faces a formidable trend of warmer and wetter winters, which already increase the…Read More >
Beware Floods Ahead!
Join us at in the ExplorerZone Digital of the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival on Saturday 17 October – from 8am to 8pm from the comfort of your own home. …Read More >
Oxford Science and Ideas Festival
The Beware: Floods Ahead! exhibit is going online at the Oxford Ideas Festival. Mixing maths with poetry and climate science with geography: be the flood judge, create your ‘climate stripes’,…Read More >
Meteorology Masterclass: The impact of climate change on winter storms
SPEAKER | Len Shaffrey: University of Reading / NCAS Professor of Climate Science Royal Meteorological Society / University of Reading webinar series on Winter Storms in European Weather and Climate…Read More >
Heatwaves are an invisible killer – and the UK is woefully unprepared
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause suffering around the world, but another killer has silently struck in summer 2020. With relatively little by way of official warning or advice on…Read More >
Cold war nuclear tests changed rainfall thousands of miles away
It’s difficult to imagine quite how alarming it would have been for the world’s meteorologists monitoring the atmosphere during the nuclear tests in the 1950s and early 60s. The radioactivity…Read More >
Combating climate change – why investors should keep their shares in fossil fuel companies
As we begin to engage with the climate emergency and the impact of carbon dioxide emissions, calls have grown to stop investing in companies engaged in fossil fuel production –…Read More >
Is racism and bigotry in our DNA?
As part of The Conversation‘s ‘Life’s Big Questions’ series, Tom Oliver, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and author of ‘the Self Delusion’ explains why humans, although fundamentally cooperative, need…Read More >
What future do airlines have?
As announcements of redundancies in the airline industry continue, Jorge Guira, Associate Professor in Law and Finance, and colleagues from the Universities of Southampton and Cranfield, outline the scale of…Read More >
