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Scientists have examined a period of extreme global warming that happened about 56 million years ago to find out how climate change could influence Earth’s water cycle in the future. The research, led by Cambridge Earth Scientists, finds evidence for increased rainfall and storminess during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal...

The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University of Cambridge researchers. These particles are so small that they are likely being underestimated in surveys of pollution in the world’s oldest metro system. The researchers carried...

Our planet’s surface might seem stable and constant, but it is in fact being continually recycled by plate tectonic processes that send old rocks diving into Earth’s interior. Looking around us, from the mountains of the Himalayas to the bottom of the ocean, many rocks are no more than a few hundred million years old. But...

Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of modern birds. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht found that one of the key skull features that characterises...