Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection
The front page of the Times on July 25 carried a photograph of three people sitting under a striped parasol on the sand near Lacanau in southwest France, looking out…
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
As the UK has baked through extreme heatwaves this summer, the same question has echoed across television studios and radio interviews: “Was this heatwave caused by climate change?” It’s the…
Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation
The tropics cover less than one-third of the Earth’s surface, but are home to more than half of all known species. Forests, savannas, grasslands, deserts: a vast array of environments…
As mayor, Andy Burnham’s climate record was strong – this city knowledge is key to decarbonising the UK
When Andy Burnham walked into Downing Street on July 20 as the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade, he promised to act as a “circuit-breaker for Britain”. Burnham is…
How next-generation photovoltaics could contribute to electricity storage
Due to the falling price of silicon solar cells, as well as their manageable size, the sight of solar panels on household rooftops has become a familiar one. However, solar…
Force of Nature shows how extreme weather pushes wildlife to its limits
Force of Nature launches on ITV July 26. © ITV Published: July 24, 2026 9:57am EDT A chimpanzee digging for water in a dried-up Senegalese riverbed. A colony of 40,000…
The World Cup was meant to be carbon-neutral. FIFA hasn’t released the figures, so we built a computer model to check
In 2018, when the United States, Canada and Mexico bid to host the World Cup, their pitch included a climate promise: the bid committee said it would strive to deliver…
Building dams to protect Lismore from flooding would cost billions. Could nature do it better?
The unprecedented flooding in New South Wales in 2022 killed 13 people across the state, left 4,000 properties uninhabitable and damaged a further 10,900 homes. Lismore was especially hard hit…
Tiny waves in the deep ocean can affect the climate thousands of kilometres away
Thousands of metres below the ocean’s surface, there are tiny waves moving through the water. Much like breaking waves at the beach, these small waves within the ocean must eventually…