Articles about 'University of Melbourne

Global aviation could be on a flight path to net zero if industry and governments reach just four goals by 2030, according to a new report from the University of Cambridge.

Two decades of cuckoo research have helped scientists to explain how battles between species can cause new species to arise

Students from small island nations will be supported in their work to address climate change through new scholarships inspired by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and announced today by the Universities of Cambridge, Toronto, Melbourne, McMaster and Montreal. 

A study from the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne has found that the onset of past climate changes was synchronous over an area extending from the Arctic to the low latitudes.

In the search for low emission plant-based fuels, new research may help avoid having to choose between growing crops for food or fuel.

Evidence shows that experts are frequently fallible, say leading risk researchers, and policy makers should not act on expert advice without using rigorous methods that balance subjective distortions inherent in expert estimates.

Aiming to improve policy-makers’ understanding of the imperfect nature of science, academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne have created a list of concepts that they believe should be part of the education of civil servants, politicians, policy advisers and journalists