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Dr Shruti Nath has been appointed Research Lead at the community-driven African research institute, AfriClimate AI. This partnership brings together expertise in AI weather forecasting, climate science, and operational meteorology.

New research led by the University of Oxford and University College London (UCL) has revealed that pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) installations.

A new study reveals that a key part of the climate system - the large-scale wind patterns that determine where rain falls – can be underestimated by current climate models, helping explain why forecasts of regional rainfall remain uncertain.

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford has found that global aviation emissions could be reduced by 50-75% through combining three strategies to boost efficiency

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

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.

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.