26 May 2026
Photo by Chris Pagan The UK is “built for a climate that no longer exists” and faces mounting threats to its coastlines, water supplies and marine ecosystems unless urgent action is taken, according to a landmark government report published last week. The Climate Change Committee (CCC), the government’s independent climate advisory body, released its Fourth Independent […]
12 May 2026
Photo by Jakob Owens Scientists have published some of the strongest direct observational evidence to date that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the vast system of ocean currents that regulates climate across Europe and the North Atlantic, has been weakening for nearly two decades, with new modelling suggesting the slowdown could be far more […]
21 Apr 2026
Photo by Dimitry B Two new studies paint an alarming picture of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) – the vast ocean current system that regulates climate across Europe, Africa and the Americas. Scientists say the AMOC is both already weakening and significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought. The future: models were […]
24 Mar 2026
Photo by NASA The Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any point in recorded history, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned, with greenhouse gas concentrations driving accelerating warming of the atmosphere, oceans and ice sheets. The WMO’s State of the Global Climate 2025 report confirms that 2015 to 2025 were the hottest 11 years […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by Iqro Rinaldi Coastal sea levels around the world are significantly higher than assumed in most scientific risk assessments, a finding that could place tens of millions more people in the path of flooding than previously understood. The study, published in Nature, reviewed 385 peer-reviewed papers on sea level rise and coastal hazards published between […]
13 Jan 2026
Photo by Randy Laybourne The world’s oceans absorbed colossal amounts of heat in 2025, setting yet another record and fuelling more extreme weather, according to research published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. The additional 23 zettajoules absorbed represents approximately 37 years of global primary energy consumption, equivalent to more than 200 times the total […]
07 Oct 2025
Photo by Uriel Soberanes Every part of the global ocean is now affected by the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, according to the ninth Copernicus Ocean State Report published on 30 September 2025. “No part of the ocean is untouched by the triple planetary crisis, as pollution, biodiversity loss, […]
23 Sep 2025
Photo by Ernests Vaga The International Court of Justice has delivered a landmark ruling protecting the maritime borders and sovereignty of small island nations facing existential threats from sea level rise. In a unanimous advisory opinion issued on 23 July 2025, the UN’s highest court concluded that rising sea levels caused by climate change do not […]
