Reading in the news - Tue 2 Nov

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• BBC Online interviews Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) about his warming stripes climate change visualisation, and Professor Joy Singarayer (Meteorology) about how the climate has changed over hundreds of thousands of years in Wales. BBC Radio Wales also interviews Professor Hawkins about the stripes.
• The Daily Star (and in print) quotes Professor Hannah Cloke (Geography/Meteorology) on the World Meteorological Organization report on the state of the global climate in 2021, which was released as COP26 began this week. Read our expert comment round-up.
• Dr Stefan Smith (Built Environment) spoke to BBC Radio Berkshire about sustainable transport and COP26.
• Dr Ella Gilbert (Meteorology) spoke to BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Stoke about action that needs to be taken at COP26.
• Jon Foster Pedley, Dean and Director of Henley Business School Africa, spoke to Money Web about climate finance issues that need to be addressed at COP26.
• The Times Weather Eye column references a blog by PhD student Majid Hassan Khan (Meteorology) about simple experiments to understand how snowflakes behave in clouds.
• India Education Diary report on a landmark climate justice legal case brought by an indigenous group in Colombia against the government, supported by Reading's Centre for Climate and Justice. Read our news story.
• PhD student Akshay Deoras (Meteorology) spoke to BBC Radio Berkshire about his research into Indian monsoons.

COVID-19: expert comment on the pandemic

• Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) was interviewed on TRT World about vaccinating 5 to 10-year-olds. He was quoted by Brinkwire on whether vaccine boosters might prevent further restrictions in the UK.
• Professor Ian Jones (Biological Sciences) is quoted by IFL Science and Science Times on the Nipah virus outbreak in India.
• Reading research showing many people experienced positive emotions during the Covid-19 lockdown is discussed by Robert Crampton in his Times column, and reported by the Telegraph (and in print), Yahoo News and several other titles worldwide, including the Hindustan Times, Sify and Eminetra.
• Becker's Health It reports on research into remote working by PhD student Lebone Soga (Henley Business School) during the pandemic.

Other coverage:

• Berkshire Live reports on drink spiking incidents affecting Reading students and measures being put in place to keep students safe on campus. Read the Vice-Chancellor's statement on the issue of drink spiking.
• The Scientist and Jioforme quote Dr Ricardo Grau-Crespo (Chemistry) on how Brexit has complicated science projects that require participants to travel to the UK.
• An open letter to the New Zealand Prime Minister, calling for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be offered asylum there, has been co-signed by a University of Reading lecturer, reports Green Left.
• Loop reports that a Reading alumnus is teaching young people in the Caribbean the art of calligraphy.