Initial ISI-MIP simulation showing the effects on vegetation productivity at the highest emissions scenario (reduction: red to yellow; increase: green to blue)

Modelling impacts of a warming world

03 October 2012

A community-driven modelling effort aims to quantify one of the gravest of global uncertainties: the impact of global warming on the world’s food, health, vegetation...

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'Madness', James McArdell, after Robert Edge Pine 1760

Care in the community

02 October 2012

Historians have long recognised that the family were the chief carers of the mentally ill. A new study will investigate the emotional and economic consequences...

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David Spiegelhalter

Risk and uncertainty

01 October 2012

This month, the University of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses risk and uncertainty. To begin, Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public...

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