On Monday the 20 th of October, The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), a CAFA member, launched the second report of their series “ State of the Climate for the UK Energy Sector ” for the period between April 2024 and April 2025. During the launch event, supported by AECOM, three key speakers discussed the findings of their research: Dr James Mollard, Dr Hannah Bloomfield, and Stephen Swabey. By analysing the most impactful weather conditions in the UK, the report explores weather...

Forests on the other side of climate change   Who would have thought that resilient ecosystems, stable for millions of years, could be fundamentally transformed in a single generation? New research on forests in Australia reveals this is no longer a theory, but our new reality for some Australians. A study , analysing 49 years of data from 20 forests in Queensland has uncovered a shift: for the past 25 years, these forests have been emitting more carbon than they absorb. Trees and plants...

Scientists are sounding yet another alarm: a new source of greenhouse gas has been discovered in Antarctica . This crisis stems directly from anthropogenic global warming, which is hitting Antarctica and its 30 million cubic km  of ice hardest. Now, as the ice vanishes at an alarming rate , a new threat is announced: methane, a gas created over millions of years from organic matter broken down by microbes, is being released from underneath the ice sheets .     While carbon dioxide (CO 2 )  is...