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After several months of relative quiet there seems to be a flurry of activity in the UK climate conversation around ‘geo-engineering’. Most recently there was a piece in the Sunday Times that labels geo-engineering “a bad idea whose time has come”. For folks who haven’t been following this conversation, geo-engineering is an umbrella term for [...]

Every summer the sea ice in the Arctic shrinks, usually reaching a minimum around early September, and every winter at least some of the ice reforms as temperatures drop. But in the three decades since records began in 1979, the area covered by ice in early September – the ‘sea ice minimum’ – has been [...]

Plankton in the North Atlantic are moving north at 23 kilometres a year. Just stop and think about that strange fact for a moment. Terrestrial species, scientists tell us, are moving at around 17 kilometres per decade, which is worrying. Faster moving marine species in the waters around the UK are moving at 50 kilometres per decade, which [...]