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As our climate warms Britain’s weather is becoming ever more extreme: with heatwaves and heavy rainfall events increasingly frequent and severe. In Scotland, winter precipitation has increased by 20% since the 1960s, and this upward trend looks set to intensify. A group of scientists from the University of Cambridge and...

Minerals present in the Venusian atmosphere could explain the colour and splotchiness of the planet’s clouds in the UV range say Cambridge researchers, solving a long-standing mystery. Scientists know that Venus' clouds are mainly composed of sulfuric acid droplets with some water, chlorine, and iron — a mix that varies...

The Cambridge Volcano Seismology Group are livestreaming earthquake data from Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula for the public to watch online in real-time. Earlier in November, a vast sheet of magma pierced through rocks beneath the Peninsula — triggering seismic shaking and forcing evacuations from the coastal town of...

Rob Theodore, Exhibitions and Displays Coordinator at the Sedgwick Museum, has been interested in the natural world since he moved from Greater London to the Cambridgeshire Fens when he was four. Rob puts his love of all things palaeontology down to a book, the ‘Sainsbury’s Book of Dinosaurs’ , which his dad gave him soon...