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.
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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.
Read ArticleA 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.
Read ArticleIn 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.
Read ArticleThe 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.
Read ArticleThe 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.
Read ArticleThe Living Planet Index, a report produced jointly by the Zoological Society of London and WWF has today indicated that global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% between 1970 and 2012.
Read ArticleWhat inspired Lizzie Carr to build a raft out of rubbish?
Read ArticleThe bad news first: In 2015, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our planet's atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in millions of years.
Read ArticleIn the last six months, the UK has generated more of its electricity from solar panels installed in fields and on houses than was generated using coal. Meanwhile, the European Union has today voted to ratify the Paris climate treaty.
Read ArticleThe amount of sea ice left at the end of the Arctic summer shrank to the second lowest level since records began in 1979. The low point was reached on 10 September 2016, when sea ice covered 4.14 million square kilometres (1.6m sq miles). The lowest level ever recorded was in 2012, when Arctic sea ice covered just 3.39 million square kilometres.
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