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Overturning 40 years of received wisdom about where primates come from

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21 July 202622 July 2026

Dr Jorge Avaria-Llautureo, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Reading, tells how a novel method decodes ancient fossil records to reveal where our closest relatives truly began, and why...Read More >

Here’s what we know about the climate cost of white trails aircraft leave in the sky

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28 April 202628 April 2026

Contrails, short for condensation trails, are the white streaks often seen in the sky behind aircraft. The international cloud atlas, which classifies clouds, has a category just for them: cirrus...Read More >

This waterlogged corner of England was once only habitable during summer. Climate change could make it so again

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3 March 202617 March 2026

Floods in 2014 on West Sedgemoor near Taunton | Mr Eugene Birchall, CC BY-SA 2.0 Standing on the hills looking out across flat green fields, linked by a network of...Read More >

Britain’s relentless rain shows climate predictions playing out as expected

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17 February 202617 February 2026

Large parts of the UK are experiencing relentless rainfall, with some places seeing rain for 41 consecutive days and counting. In Reading, in the south east of England, our university’s...Read More >

How diverse voices are transforming the UN’s climate science

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11 February 202618 February 2026

An environmental expert from Nigeria, a climate policy consultant from Kenya, an oceanographer from Indonesia and an Indigenous social development specialist from the Philippines will are among dozens of experts...Read More >

Climate ‘fingerprints’ mark human activity from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean

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5 February 20265 February 2026

The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for the Earth’s surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing from the top of the atmosphere to...Read More >

Climate education proposals will prepare young people in England for changing careers and society

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9 January 20268 January 2026

The review of the national curriculum and assessment in England has proposed three big sets of changes for climate education. First, to prepare learners for a changing world, it suggests...Read More >

Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard

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30 October 202530 October 2025

Hurricane Melissa making landfall with Jamaica | ESA Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5...Read More >

The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye

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23 October 20254 November 2025

River Wye. Photo by Mike Erskine on Unsplash The River Wye used to be full of wild salmon. Today it is full of algae. And the meandering waterway which has...Read More >

UK air quality is improving but pollution targets are still being breached – new study

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18 July 202518 July 2025

An estimated 4.2 million deaths can be attributed to poor air quality each year. Poor air quality is the largest fixable environmental public health risk in the world. Our new...Read More >

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