Average months now feel cold thanks to climate change
People in the UK love discussing the weather. For the first two weeks of June 2024, the cold, dull conditions were all they could talk about. Major news outlets like...Read More >
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Why we’re hunting through a century of data from Britain’s northernmost observatory
Built in 1913 as a naval radio station, the Shetland Isles’ Met Office at Lerwick provides the temperature reading you see on the top right-hand corner of the UK weather...Read More >
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 >
Understanding vertical motion in clouds
How much the global mean temperature will change in response to increases in carbon dioxide is of high uncertainty in climate models but is critical for future planning and climate…Read More >
Ask me anything about climate change!
From coronavirus to carbon storage, Reading climate scientists invited local school children to ask them anything on 13 March for British Science Week. Here are some of the burning questions…Read More >
Reading climate experts gather at COP25
UN climate change conference COP25 is underway in Madrid, and our climate scientists and students are there. Here we round up the University of Reading’s activities at the most significant…Read More >