Blog and updates
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25 Jan 2020
Turkey earthquake kills 22
The earthquake which happened on Friday evening measured 6.8 magnitude and has damaged a significant amount of infrastructure.
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20 Jan 2020
Bushfires still causing issues in Australia
Despite the welcome rains extinguishing many of the fires hitting Australia, there are still 80 fires burning across New South Wales and Victoria.
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14 Jan 2020
Australian wildfires could become “normal”
After weeks of news stories about the scale and devastation of the fires in Australia, Scientists are now saying that events as large as this could become “normal” in the future where the world’s...
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28 Dec 2019
How to choose which species to save
Scientists have expressed concern that up to a million species are at risk of extinction as a result of climate change. This then poses the question- which should we save?
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26 Dec 2019
The big science and environment stories of 2019
The BBC has this useful primer to identify some of the top environmental stories of 2019.
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20 Dec 2019
The Met Office warns of a continuing warming trend
Temperatures in 2020 are set to be at least one degree above pre-industrial levels. This will make the last six years the warmest on record- setting a trend for continued climate change.
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17 Dec 2019
Town centre revival needs a new magnet
The Guardian's Simon Jenkins channels his inner Jane Jacobs, arguing that shops alone are not going to revive the High Street, given changing shopping habits.
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9 Dec 2019
New Zealand volcano erupts
The volcano on White Island - which last erupted in 2001, is one of New Zealand’s most active volcanoes and people were seen walking inside the crater just before the eruption.
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3 Dec 2019
Typhoon Kammuri batters the Philippines
The late season typhoon has hit the central Philippines at the southern tip of Luzon Island. This densely populated island has reacted by evacuating 200,000 people from along the coast and in some...
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25 Nov 2019
Landslides kill at least 29 people in Kenya
Heavy rains around the 18th November led to significant risks for many villages in mountainous areas. The West Pokot region has been most affected.
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20 Nov 2019
An increase in China’s coal use threatens Paris targets
As other nations have cut their coal use in the last eighteen months, China’s increased use, by reviving old power plants and creating new facilities is set to exceed the EUs total capacity.
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12 Nov 2019
Government review says that HS2 should happen
Despite the likely increased cost associated with the completion of HS2; the review states that it should go ahead as there are no alternatives that will ensure the same level of growth to northern...
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4 Nov 2019
Child labour and low pay being tackled in Malawi
Human rights lawyers are bringing a case against British American Tobacco in a fight against the low pay being given to more than 350 children and their families.
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29 Oct 2019
Inga trees could help to reduce the impact of deforestation
Scientists are hoping that local farmers within the Amazon will decide to cultivate these trees rather than sell off their land to large plantation owners. The trees grow fast even on the poorest...
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22 Oct 2019
Elephants die due to drought
55 elephants have been discovered dead close to watering holes they were trying to reach. This latest incident has occurred as a result of the drought that is currently affecting Zimbabwe.
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15 Oct 2019
E-waste plastic is a ticking time bomb
20% of all e-waste is plastic; an issue that has been ignored as the focus has been on single use plastics such as food packaging. However, with 50 million tonnes of e-waste being produced each...
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8 Oct 2019
Deaths increase on the year’s hottest day
On the 25th July, a temperature of 38.7C was recorded in Cambridge. Provisional figures for England and Wales show that this led to an increase in deaths.
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30 Sept 2019
UK recycling
We all feel good about recycling but have we ever considered what happens to our waste and where it actually goes to?
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23 Sept 2019
Are cities bad for the environment?
An excellent piece here from the BBC news web site on the extent to which the majority of UK cities emit less greenhouse gases than in the rest of the country. Some cities are doing more than...
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22 Sept 2019
The World is unprepared for future disease risk
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board have announced that the World is "grossly unprepared" for future pandemics.
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