Records broken for four key climate change indicators in 2021, warns WMO report
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its annual State of the Global Climate report,…
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Met Office works with Anglian Water to strengthen drought resilience plan
The UK Met Office has been working with utilities provider Anglian Water to develop key…
Global drought frequency and duration has risen nearly 30% since turn of the century, finds UN report
A new report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has called for…
COP26 initiative launches climate resilience technology in Jamaica
The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI), a private sector-led COP26 initiative, has launched a…
Exposure to wildfire smoke linked to faster glacier melt
A study by researchers from the University of Saskatchewan (USask), Saskatoon, Canada, has found that…
Six AGU members appointed to US Climate Security Roundtable
Six members of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have been appointed to the US Climate…
Fifty-percent probability of exceeding 1.5°C threshold within next five years, warns WMO
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned that there is now a 50:50 chance of…
FMI launches four-year project to improve extreme weather resilience in East Africa
The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) has launched a four-year project that looks to decrease the…
Website provides New Zealanders with easy access to environmental research data
New Zealand’s seven Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) have created a new National Environmental Data Centre…
Clustered weather extremes to lead to increased crop failures, finds NASA
Extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves will increasingly cluster closer in time…