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Dr Musonda Mumba, a graduate of the Department, discusses wetland research and a collaborative future.

Peats have attracted sinister attention this year, in that they have become a target for “peat rustlers”!

Researchers from Wits University and the University College in London (UCL) recently undertook a field trip to the mountainous kingdom, Lesotho, as part of the quest to explore the source of moisture that influences rainfall in Lesotho. The team of c

© The British Library News Pamphlet illustration depicting the Great Flood in the Bristol Channel Jan 1607Historians from the University of Bristol have discovered contemporary accounts of numerous weird weather events that happened in the Bristol area around the turn of the 17th century, including devastating floods, massive snowfalls and frosts that saw rivers frozen for months. The detail comes from a chronicle that was acquired by Bristol Archives in 1932 but then declared as unfit for pro...

17th-Century England Had Some Seriously Horrible Weather Illustration: Wikimedia Commons (Fair Use) Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in Western England at the turn of 17th century is pretty shocking. Advertisement The meteorological situation in Bristol occurred during a short timespan within the Little Ice Age called the Grindelwald Fluc...

A former resident of Moynaq, in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, remembers a time when the Aral Sea meant bustling fishing villages and days spent by the sea’s shore. “I was five or six the last time I saw ships in the sea when we went swimming,” says Marat Allakuatov. The ships are long gone, like much of the lake. Soviet mismanagement This is largely down to years of Soviet-era mismanagement on a truly monumental scale. In 1960, the USSR took the decision to use the ...