Meet the struggling saltmarsh sparrow – and the band of volunteers trying to save it When you think about the climate crisis, Rhode Island in the United States is probably not the first place that springs to mind. But surprisingly, despite its mild climate, the state is one of the places where sea levels areContinue reading “Living alongside more than 10,000 different species of bird in the world”
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Recovering from human catastrophe
04/09/2025 Nature has a remarkable way of recovering from human catastrophe Tess McClure If I ask you to conjure up a vision of “nature”, what comes to you? For most of us, I think our minds go to the pristine. Untouched rainforests, vast savanna grasslands, deep thickets, inaccessible mountains. Somewhere remote, somewhere uncontaminated, somewhere freeContinue reading “Recovering from human catastrophe”
Europe too hot to handle
3 Jul 2025 The hilltop weather station in Telegrafenberg, Germany, has faithfully measured the elements since 1893, clocking key climate data without pause through two world wars and the splitting of the country into east and west. On Tuesday, July 1, it announced that rainfall levels in the first half of this year were theContinue reading “Europe too hot to handle”
Water going in the wrong places
Extreme weather wreaked havoc on the world in 2023 – here’s what to expect this year Gabrielle Canon 4 January 2024 As the clock struck midnight on 1 January 2023, the skies opened over California unleashing torrents of rain that quickly swallowed swaths of land just south of the state’s capital. When the sunContinue reading “Water going in the wrong places”
Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023
Essential reads ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat Global temperatures soared to a new record in September by a huge margin, stunning scientists and leading one to describe it as “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”. The hottest September on record follows the hottest August and hottest July, with the latter being the hottest monthContinue reading “Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023”
Wildfires all over the northern hemisphere in 2023
Climate change has spurred on hotter, drier conditions around the world that have lengthened fire seasons in many regions, including California, Europe and Siberia. Changes to the climate have put more energy into the atmosphere, which means severe lightning storms are happening much further north.
Composted reads for August 2023
The good news ‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon Red admiral butterfly population soars 400% in UK as winters warm The sustainable building material we’ve all been waiting for Prospectors hit the gas in the hunt for ‘white hydrogen’ ‘This way of farming is really sexy’: the rise ofContinue reading “Composted reads for August 2023”
Storm Hilary is a sign of the unpredictable weather we must learn to live with
The exact consequences of this global heating still has the capacity to surprise
European Youth Event 2023: The effects of climate change
Climate change will cost billions of euros and damage all our economic sectors. Even if we manage to slash emissions, the world is still likely to reach 1.5°C of warming within the next 20 years. This means that the impacts of climate change will become increasingly severe, with more frequent and intense extreme weather events.
A letter from Mikaela Loach
A letter from Mikaela who moved from Columbia to the UK, catching up with old friends and trying to keep up with the ridiculous chaos that is politics in the UK .
Some View on the World 