Seafloor sediments from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf represent an archive of warmer periods in Earth’s past. An ambitious international project aims to uncover what we can learn about our hotter future.
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For a two-in-three chance of staying within 1.5°C, the budget shrinks to one-and-a-half years.
On top of rising greenhouse gas emissions, aerosol pollution which would normally cool Earth has fallen.
Neste episódio do The Conversation Weekly do Reino Unido, ouvimos os cientistas por trás da nova vacina contra a malária desenvolvida pela Universidade de Oxford.
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear from the scientists behind a new malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford.
To overcome last winter’s energy crunch, France successfully introduced a 15-point ‘energy sobriety’ plan to cut gas and electricity use and reduce emissions.
Most of the males in a Puerto Rican monkey colony engaged in homosexual activity, a new study reveals.
Un reciente estudio sugiere que los objetivos climáticos nacionales actuales podrían bastar para estabilizar el calentamiento global en 1,7-1,8°C en este siglo. Pero hay que acelerar las medidas de mitigación.
Study suggests that current national climate commitments could be enough to stabilise global warming within the century. But mitigation action needs to be turbocharged.
If we could go sightseeing across our cosmic neighbourhood, these would be some of the best highlights.
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode three, we discuss the latest advances in extreme weather attribution.
It is not the drought that causes disease outbreak, but instead the way society deals with dry conditions.
Astronomers have found that mysterious dark energy may originate in black holes.
Nine children in the UK have now died from invasive group A strep. It’s important that parents know what to look out for.
Natural disasters associated with climate change put people at risk of injury and death, and alter the prevalence and distribution of illnesses and infectious diseases.
Warming ocean water is ‘rocket fuel’ for increasingly destructive hurricanes.
There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.
Amid the global threats posed by climate change, spiralling energy costs, insecure employment and widening inequality, the need to rethink our notion of progress is now an urgent priority.
Wildfires are intensifying, yet they’re one of the most poorly understood phenomena on Earth. New research shows that they can disturb both regional and global climate.
Si les feux de forêt se multiplient, ils demeurent l’un des phénomènes les plus mal compris sur Terre. De nouvelles recherches montrent qu’ils peuvent perturber le climat régional et mondial.
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Senior research fellow, Imperial College London
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Research Associate in Energy Systems Modelling, Imperial College London
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Reader in Astrophysics, Imperial College London
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Senior Clinical Lecturer, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Imperial College London
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Co-Director, Institute of Infection, Chair, Immunology & Vaccinology, Imperial College London
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
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Research Postgraduate, Imperial College London
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College London
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Director of Science & Engagement, The Geological Society of London, and Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College London
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Visiting Professor in Statistics, Imperial College London
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
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Research Fellow in Atmospheric Science, Imperial College London
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Research fellow, Imperial College London
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Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, Imperial College London
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Professor of Organismic Biology, Imperial College London
