A dramatic change in tropical trade winds has resulted in warming seas across the equatorial Pacific. After two continuous years scientists are calling the end of the La Niña weather cycle and are now on El Niño Watch. As of late March, ENSO-neutral conditions were occurring, but El Niño conditions may develop between May and […]

This is huge! After years of campaigning and a tense final week of negotiations, world leaders have put aside their differences and finally secured a historic Global Ocean Treaty. This puts us on a path to potentially save our oceans from the brink of disaster. Can you take a moment to watch and share this […]

We’ve got one more chance to finalise a Treaty to help protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 — and we need your help to do it.  SIGN THE PETITION to tell the UK Government to safeguard our blue planet at the UN talks. Next week, governments are gathering at the United Nations (UN) […]

Tortoise Net Zero reports: Less than half of FTSE 100 companies are on track to meet their emissions reductions targets, Companies are coming under growing pressure from investors, consumers and regulators to prepare for the transition to net zero. But while some of the UK’s biggest companies have grasped the need for change, far too […]

Warmest Years and Warmest Ocean on Record. It is likely the oceans are now at their warmest for 1,000 years and heating faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years. Read More Greta Thurnborg Publishes THE CLIMATE BOOK. The science concerning the future impact of climate change is clear; what is missing is […]

Residents were shocked to wake up and find pools of water in their new Bloor Homes based on an estate in Crowmarsh Gifford last weekend. Due to the temperatures reaching lows of -9C, water in the pipes had frozen and expanded causing the pipes to burst and leak into people’s homes. After resident’s raised the […]

Emma Barnet sets the scene on BBC Woman’s Hour re the rebellion against house building targets with input from Kitty Donaldson, Political Editor at Bloomberg News. Listen on BBC Sounds at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fw5t . First 8.5 minutes, Emma Barnet setting the scene, then Rosie Pearson talking about this for about 21 minutes. Rosie Pearson runs the […]

New homes are putting intolerable strain on our services: GPs, sewage works, schools etc. Councillor Sue Roberts told the Oxford Mail that her nephew was denied medical care for his two-year old son. They had recently moved to Didcot where there are not enough GPs. The child was sent home from nursery with a blood-encrusted ear but […]

Footsie falls short. Britain’s biggest listed companies aren’t doing enough to combat climate change. Not even close. Newly updated Tortoise data shows that FTSE 100 companies overall In human terms: current FTSE 100 emissions reductions targets are inadequate to maintain a habitable planet for millions of people.  Total CO2 emissions by these companies are down slightly this year […]

Robert Falcon Scott wrote in his last diary entry on 29 March 1912: “We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.” As we enter another COP, with the world at 1.15°C of warming, it feels as though the hope of “keeping 1.5°C […]