03 Sep 2026
Image description: General view of low water levels in Woodhead Reservoir, Derbyshire, taken June 15 2025 following the driest spring in England since 1893. The reservoir supplies water to Greater Manchester. Image by Alastair Johnstone-Hack / Climate Visuals An unprecedented climatic event taking shape The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed that the current […]
20 Aug 2026
Photo by Dibakar Roy on Unsplash Countries around the world are bracing for food price rises as a result of damage to harvests from record heat and lack of water, and the World Food Programme predicts that 50 million more people could be pushed into hunger by the “super El Niño” weather system currently developing. It is […]
26 Mar 2026
Image description: Village women are in a queue to collect drinking water as they travel long distances to collect drinking water, Satkhira, Bangladesh. The southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh has faced thirty large-and moderate-scale natural disasters in the last two decades. Image credit: Abir Abdullah / Climate Visuals Women and girls continue to be disproportionately impacted by […]
26 Mar 2026
Image description: Salmon jumping upstream. Image by Danny Moore from Pixabay. Migratory freshwater fish populations vital to river health and sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people are in freefall and risk collapse, a major UN assessment has warned. Freshwater fish face multiple threats and are “among the most imperiled vertebrates”, according to the most comprehensive assessment to […]
19 Nov 2024
Natural England have successfully launched a pioneering habitat restoration project aimed at supporting breeding seabirds in the Solent, as part of larger Solent Seascape Project. The project is planned to run for five years to create nesting sites for four types of terns – common, sandwich, little, and roseate – along with other seabirds. Initial […]
16 Oct 2024
The privatised English water system has been singled out for criticism by the UN special rapporteur on the human right to clean water. Photo by Nick Vasin Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo said water systems should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders. The […]
06 Aug 2024
The Solent Seascape Project, the UK’s first large-scale marine restoration initiative, has been internationally recognized as a UN Ocean Decade Action, highlighting its global significance. The project aims to restore vital marine habitats—salt marshes, seagrass beds, oyster reefs, and seabird sites—across the Solent, a rich estuarine system between the Isle of Wight and mainland England. […]
25 Jul 2023
The United Nations World Ocean Assessment is currently in its third cycle and the call for experts has now opened. The United Nations World Ocean Assessment is the only global integrated assessment of our oceans under all aspects of sustainable development, drawing on expertise from hundreds of scientists from around the world. To support […]
