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Newcastle University academics welcomed to Academy of Social Sciences

Three Newcastle University academics have been awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of their contributions to the field.

UN report sets out path to return below 1.5°C

The world set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures.

Comment: An expert explains what happened in Nepal

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Stuart Dunning discusses how a collapsing glacier turned into a lethal wall of mud and water.

Comment: Britain’s quarter century

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Hayley Fowler discusses how the UK environment has changed in the past 25 years.

Comment: Was this heatwave caused by climate change?

Writing for The Conversation, Professors Hayley Fowler and Ed Hawkins discuss how much hotter and more dangerous heatwaves have become because of greenhouse gases, primarily from burning fossil fuels.

Comment: Force of Nature

Writing for The Conversation, Professors Hayley Fowler, Hannah Cloke and Jim McQuaid explore how the wildlife series reveals the ways extreme weather pushes animals to their limits.