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The UK is investing £10 million in a new national green finance research centre that will advise lenders, investors and insurers. The research centre will enable them to make environmentally sustainable decisions, and support a greener global economy. Access to scientifically-robust data and analytics is currently patchy and unreliable. Armed with better information, underpinned by...
The emissions of a banned ozone-depleting gas have dropped rapidly following a previously unexpected spike. A team of international researchers analysed global air measurements of the ozone-depleting chemical chlorofluorocarbon CFC-11. The analysis involved the use of detailed atmospheric models to remove the effects of natural meteorological variations. They found that five years after an unexpected...
Key institutions across Yorkshire including the University of Leeds are join forces to help tackle climate change. Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission, set to launch in March, will provide an independent voice to help support and track the delivery of ambitious climate actions across the region. It will focus on reducing carbon emissions as quickly...
Scientists believe a key nutrient transported by the wind is contributing to the growth of algal blooms on melting ice sheets. The presence of the blooms increases the rate at which the ice melts, causing sea levels to rise. The Greenland ice sheet – the second largest ice body in the world after the Antarctic...
The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new research. And the findings also reveal that the Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017 – equivalent to a sheet of ice 100 metres thick covering the whole of the UK. The research is the...