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A new fully funded DPhil studentship has been created at the University of Oxford thanks to support from AlbaCore Capital Group; the award will support the advancement of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, climate and the environment

When lives or properties are destroyed by floods, storms, or wildfires, can and should anybody be held to account?

Professor Hannah Christensen has been awarded the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) Early Career Scientist Medal for 2025.

The first images from the extraordinary NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory have been made public today.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

No bigger than a shoebox, the Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the Department of Physics, will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission on Wednesday 26 February.

Dr Carly Howett speaks to Oxford Sparks in their first podcast of 2025

Citizen science reveals that Jupiter’s colourful clouds are not made of ammonia ice

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert has been awarded the European Geosciences Union Jean Dominique Cassini Medal, the EGU’s highest award for recognition of achievement in the planetary sciences.

Climate change could be halted within a generation if the energy companies selling fossil fuels were required to dispose responsibly of the waste CO2 they generate, the climate scientist who led the first work on Net Zero has said.

Associate Professor Hannah Christensen has been awarded the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Professor David Marshall has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards.