Risk and uncertainty

Transparency without accessibility is not enough: stats must be put in context, say researchers.

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography), Gemma Cranston (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) and Jonathan Green (Department of...

The Alpine–Himalayan belt, which stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. Now, a...

Evidence shows that experts are frequently fallible, say leading risk researchers, and policy makers should not act on expert advice without using...

New model says world cities face expected losses of $4.6 trillion in economic output over the next decade as a result of natural or man-made...

New research has identified an increased risk of brain haemorrhage from the combined use of antidepressant medicines and medicines such as ibuprofen...

As the death toll continues to rise in Nepal, Senior Lecturer Dr Ian Willis, and PhD student Evan Miles, from the Scott Polar Research Institute...

Following the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal this weekend, Simon Redfern, Professor in Earth Sciences at University of Cambridge, explains...