April 22, 2022

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March 1, 2022

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on 28 February 2022 has said that many of the effects of climate change are already baked in, but that humanity still has a brief window to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

February 10, 2022

Scientists at the Oxfordshire-based Joint European Torus (JET) laboratory made a significant breakthrough yesterday in their mission to harness the power of nuclear fusion - the energy that powers the stars.

January 18, 2022

All kinds of climate records were broken in 2021, with a notable one being a new high for December of 19.4C set in Kodiak, Alaska. Meanwhile, China saw its hottest year ever, but perhaps even more dramatic than this was more than a year's worth of rain, which fell on Henan province in just three days, causing flooding, destroying homes and wrecking crops.

November 19, 2021

Brazil's space agency, INPE, has found that in the past year, deforestation in the country has increased by 22%. Some 13,235 square kilometres of forest was destroyed in the last year, according to INPE's analysis of satellite data. That's the largest area since 2006.

November 18, 2021

It's now almost a week since COP26 ended and as the dust settles, it's time to take a look at what came out of COP26. It was billed as a vital meeting to chart humanity's path towards a zero carbon future. But did it succeed? Not exactly, but it wasn't a failure either. Here's why:

November 10, 2021

A lot has been happening at COP26 as it heads towards its conclusion at the end of this week.  Friday 5 November was 'focussed on youth activities'Youth Day' and saw thousands of young people, their teachers and parents taking to the streets of Glasgow in a protest originally organised by Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future organisation.

November 3, 2021

COP26 - the 26th Conference of the Parties got underway on 31 October 2021 at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow and is set to run until 12 November. The target for the two-week climate conference is for the world’s leaders to commit to keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5c above pre-Industrial levels, as set out in the Paris agreement, which was drawn up in 2015 at COP21 in Paris.

September 24, 2021

This week, the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson contradicted Kermit the Frog’s assertion that ‘It’s not easy being green’. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 22 September, he declared that COP26 must be a ‘turning point for humanity.

September 15, 2021

A new study, which asked 10,000 young people aged 16 to 25 from around the world about the anxiety they feel related to climate change has produced results that underline how important tackling climate change is to the majority of young people on the planet.