October 14, 2019

A lot has been going on during the last week on the topic of climate change. The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned that companies and industries that are not heading towards a zero carbon future will be affected by investor pull-outs and risk going bankrupt.

September 20, 2019

Millions of people in at least 150 countries around the world are taking part in climate crisis protests today to urge their governments to take action to combat climate change.

September 13, 2019

We are really excited to launch our new suite of lesson plans on climate change, for use by KS2 and KS3. The suite includes a set of lessons and presentations covering the following topics:

August 23, 2019

Since the start of 2019, the number of wildfires burning in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has increased by 84%. There were around 40,000 fires in the Brazilian Amazon between 1 January and 21 August 2018. In the same period this year, that number has increased to around 75,000. The smoke from the fires can be seen from space.

August 20, 2019

Young British adventurer Ash Dykes, aged 28, has finished his 4,000 mile trek along the length of the Yangtze River in China.

July 31, 2019

The ten hottest years have all happened since 2002, with 2016 the hottest ever according to a new report from the Met Office. Meanwhile, none of our coldest years has occurred after 1963.

July 26, 2019

A new survey, commissioned by Christian Aid, has found that 71% of the UK public believed that climate change was a more important issue than Brexit.  Two thirds of those asked beleieved that Bexit should be at the top of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political agenda, while 60% felt that the government was not doing enough to tackle climate change.

July 10, 2019

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s own advisory panel, has said that it is shocked by the lack of proper plans to protect people from the impacts of climate change - like heatwaves and flash floods.

June 21, 2019

The National Grid has predicted that 2019 will be the first full year that clean electricity generation will produce more energy than that generated by fossil fuels.

May 2, 2019

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s panel of official advisers on climate change stated yesterday that the UK government needs to set a legally binding target to cut our greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. ‘Net zero’ recognises that we will still be burning some fossil fuels, for example for flying, whilst emissions arise from farming too, but that these emissions would be counteracted by the planting of trees or by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from power stations and factories, which could then be buried underground.