An unusual and devastating storm struck Ireland in the early hours of October 16, 2017. Record-breaking gusts of up to 119mph left 360,000 homes without electricity and, sadly, three people…Read More >
climate change
Are you a climate change hypocrite? Here’s why you shouldn’t worry
Standing on the deck of Berta Cáceres, the now-iconic pink boat, Emma Thompson addressed a sprawling crowd of protestors and gave a slew of media interviews. It was April 2019,…Read More >
Understanding why people behave sustainably
Through our daily living practices, almost all of us contribute to global environmental change. For example, households in the UK emitted an average of 9.8 tons of CO2 equivalent in…Read More >
Science art helps climate change message hit home
Communicating climate change and its impacts is a key challenge we face as scientists. Although we need to practice robust research – and part of the way we do this…Read More >
Antarctica’s ice shelves are trembling as global temperatures rise – what happens next is up to us
Images of colossal chunks of ice plunging into the sea accompany almost every news story about climate change. It can often make the problem seem remote, as if the effects…Read More >
Understanding vertical motion in clouds
How much the global mean temperature will change in response to increases in carbon dioxide is of high uncertainty in climate models but is critical for future planning and climate…Read More >
What can the arts show us about climate change?
Climate change requires an urgent and radical reconsideration of the relationship between humans and the earth, how we live and how we shape, and are shaped by, the more-than-human world….Read More >
Climate change is making extreme cold much less likely, despite the UK plummeting to -23°C
The UK, along with large parts of northern Europe, is in the grip of an unusually cold period of weather thanks to a flow of cold easterly winds from Siberia….Read More >
Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020
The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the…Read More >
Why COVID-19 has left the UK especially vulnerable to flooding this winter
Winter is here and, as a researcher who monitors flooding, I find it more daunting than ever. The UK faces a formidable trend of warmer and wetter winters, which already increase the…Read More >