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Can Europe's greatest store of climate data help us better predict our future?

Video. Predicting Europe's climate future by digging into the past

Updated: 20/11/2023 - 18:56 GMT+1

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We visit the buzzing student city of Bologna, in Italy, where Europe's greatest scientific minds have been gathering data about our planet since the Renaissance.

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