January 18, 2017

Data released today by the UK Met Office, NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that 2016 was the hottest year on record.  What's more 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have occurred this century.

January 6, 2017

According to estimates produced by analysts Carbon Brief, the UK's windfarms generated more electricity than coal-fired power stations for the first time in 2016.

December 8, 2016

Google has announced that it is on target for its data centres and offices to be 100% powered by renewable energy from 2017.

November 29, 2016

Year 6 teachers: Here's a great new set of lesson plans!

November 15, 2016

The UN announced yesterday that 2016 likely to be hottest year on record. Sixteen of the seventeen hottest years on record have occurred since 2000.

November 14, 2016

A new report researchers at the University of East Anglia has found that global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) remained almost flat for the third year in a row in 2016 at around 36.4 billion tonnes, even though many countries' economies grew during the year.

November 4, 2016

In Paris last year, the world's governments agreed to limit global temperature rises to no more than 2 degrees C and preferably less than 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. Now that agreement has come into force.

November 1, 2016

The Ross Sea in Antarctica will officially become the world's largest marine protected area (MPA), with 1.57 million square kilometres (600,000 square miles) of ocean gaining protection from commercial fishing for 35 years.

November 1, 2016

The UK government has rejected calls for a charge of 5p to be levied on the 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups sold each year by the major coffee chains.

October 27, 2016

What inspired Lizzie Carr to build a raft out of rubbish?