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Kate Ravilious

Kate Ravilious is a freelance science journalist, based in York, UK; she writes on Earth, climate and weather-related issues

August 2024

  • Lighthouse at dusk with illuminated clouds in sky above sea

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Space rockets helping trigger noctilucent clouds

    Research shows strong correlation between summer launches and the frequency of the wispy silvery-blue phenomenon

July 2024

  • Large expanse of ice

    Terrawatch
    Scientists call for greater study of glacier geoengineering options

  • Three people stand in front of the Shanghai cityscape

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: how do buildings affect the wind?

June 2024

  • A dusk view of a section of the Trail Ridge Road winding through the snow-covered peaks of the Rockies

    Terrawatch
    Deep mantle movements help explain Earth’s mysterious bulges

  • Bolts of lightning strike the ocean off the coastal city Montevideo at night

    Weatherwatch
    How Shetland data is helping to gauge El Niño’s effect on thunderstorms

May 2024

  • An orange-coloured river flows past pine trees on a mountain

    Terrawatch
    Warming climate is turning rivers rusty with toxic metals

  • An aerial view of the Los Angeles River swollen by storm runoff after powerful storms hit southern California in February

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: What’s driving California’s extreme weather?

April 2024

  • A small fishing boat navigating a complex pattern of rivulets in a grassy and partially submerged estuary

    Terrawatch
    Estuaries, the ‘nurseries of the sea’, are disappearing fast

  • People walk by wind turbines.

    Weatherwatch
    Study identifies where wind is most reliable for generating power

March 2024

  • A dam under construction in Ethiopia

    Terrawatch
    Scientists link 2019 Iranian landslide to building of dam

  • A pothole filled with water shaped like Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: pothole problem to deepen amid climate crisis

February 2024

  • Carving of a fossilised lizard-like creature

    Terrawatch
    The 280m-year-old fossil reptile that turned out to be a forgery

  • A woman sits in the rain on an outdoor stand wearing a black bin bag and red hat

    Weatherwatch
    Here comes the rain again: how cities modify the weather

January 2024

  • Lava flows from a volcano in Grindavík, Iceland

    Terrawatch
    Iceland’s Reykjanes fires may burn for decades, history suggests

  • A plane flies through the sky as the sun sets over a city

    Weatherwatch
    Is 2024 going to be the first full year to breach 1.5C of warming?

December 2023

  • The Taal volcano spews smoke and ash near Laurel fishing village in Batangas province, the Philippines

    Terrawatch
    Greener trees can provide early warning of volcanic awakening

  • Honeybees huddling

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: bees need cosy homes, too

November 2023

  • Person looking out over damaged road after an earthquake in Taiwan

    Terrawatch
    Aftershocks can occur centuries after original earthquake, says study

  • A flash drought had dried out grasslands before wildfires devastated Maui, Hawaii, in August.

    Weatherwatch
    Flash droughts are likely to become increasingly common, say researchers

October 2023

  • Anomalocaris, a prehistoric creature from the Cambrian period, about 570m years ago.

    Terrawatch
    When were conditions first right for preserving animal fossils?

    Analysis of Burgess Shale-like rocks reveal certain types of clay increase chances of soft-bodied fossil preservation
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