Too hot to learn: how climate change hurts children’s chances from birth
Floods, droughts and extreme heat can disrupt nutrition and healthcare in early life, with consequences that may last for years.
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Intense downpours in the UK will increase due to climate change – new study
A supercomputer spent six months projecting localised rainfall extremes decades into the future.
Rebuilding in Nepal‑Tibet will be challenging – communities in India are still recovering from 2023 glacial disaster
Cascading hazards and entrenched inequalities have led to false starts in reconstruction and ongoing suffering since the 2023 disaster in India’s eastern Himalayas.
Why climate ‘uncertainty’ is no excuse for doing nothing
Former environment minister Owen Paterson has called for the UK to scrap its climate change targets. In a speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, he cited “considerable uncertainty” over the impact…
Prehistoric communities off the coast of Britain embraced rising seas – what this means for today’s island nations
New research has mapped sea-level rise around the Isles of Scilly over the last 12,000 years.
Beavers are set to recolonise the UK – here’s how people and the environment could benefit
Coming to a river catchment near you: a rodent crack team ready to reduce flooding and boost biodiversity.
4D model solves Yellowstone’s geographical mysteries
A decade ago, with Ross Griffiths of the Australian National University, we aimed to build a 4D model which could replicate the Earth’s tectonic processes. Now, our research has helped us understand how…
Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020
Many storms, heatwaves, fires and droughts slipped under the radar this year.
One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change
Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.
The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai
Hint: it’s not cloud seeding.
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