Podcast
Can we build a low carbon energy network?
In this episode of our podcast we discuss the challenges involved in moving away from fossil fuels.
Content about “ mathematics and the environment
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Article
Mathematical snapshots: Tosin Babasola
Tosin uses maths to guarantee the continued production of chocolate.
Collection
INTEGRAL: Seeing the world through new eyes
The INTEGRAL project is using artificial intelligence to support the conservation of forests and make better, and healthier, planning decisions for our cities.
Article
Understanding the diversity of forests using AI
New techniques in artificial intelligence are helping assess the diversity of forests.
Article
Seeing traffic through new eyes
Using artificial intelligence to improve traffic, protecting the environment and human health.
News story
The maths of Spider-Man
If you want to climb vertical walls you need very large feet — or be as small as a gecko.
Article
Blood, oil and water
Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.
Article
Preserving species in the face of climate change
Can mathematics predict the inevitable consequences of climate change? And more importantly, can it suggest ways to reduce, or even prevent some of these consequences?
Article
Renewable energy and telecommunications
When the mathematician AK Erlang first used probability theory to model telephone networks in the early twentieth century he could hardly have imagined that the science he founded would one day help solve a most pressing global
problem: how to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy sources.
News story
Further evidence for Arctic melt-down
The state of the Arctic
Article
Editorial
- The league table lottery
- Plus and presidents
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Maths and climate change: the melting Arctic
The Arctic ice cap is melting fast and the consequences are grim. Mathematical modelling is key to predicting how much longer the ice will be around and assessing the impact of an ice free Arctic on the rest of the planet. Plus spoke to Peter Wadhams from the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge to get a glimpse of the group's work.