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There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach climate targets, a new report warns. Tackling the climate crisis should involve those knowledgeable in the arts, business owners, farmers, landowners, developers and investors, the study says. The...
A mobile phone app has been launched in Kenya to help people avoid the death and destruction caused by tropical storms. The free-to-use app will allow users to access a picture of current storm activity in their area and see where the extreme weather is heading. Known as FASTA (Forecasting African STorms Application), the app draws on...
Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Satellites revealed that 152 billion tonnes of fresh water entered the seas around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia when the megaberg A68A melted over 3...
The frequency of thunderstorms in some fast-growing African coastal cities has doubled over the past 30 years, with much of this increase linked to the impact of deforestation on the local climate, a new study has found. It is widely known that removal of vegetation increases rainwater runoff and the risk of mudslides, which happened...
The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns. The study, led by the University of Leeds, concludes that over recent decades the Himalayan glaciers have lost ice ten times more quickly over the last few decades than on average since the last major...