Colder, calmer weather in UK winters is known to present a challenge for energy production from renewable sources, especially when it is also cloudy. Wind power generates 40% or more of the UK’s ...
30 January 2025: Today the UK government published its national climate plan - known as a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) - and submitted it to the UN. The plan targets at least 81% ...
Keir Starmer ratcheted up the UK’s climate ambitions, announcing a new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2035 that keeps Britain at the forefront of the battle against global warming. The ...
High pressure is keeping much of the country dry as November begins, but a potentially significant atmospheric event could ...
Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass migration, political extremism and even nuclear conflict. The report was never ...
The UK is bouncing from one type of extreme weather to another this year. This is climate whiplash. Caused by changes in the fast-moving body of air high in the atmosphere called the jet stream, ...
A new report has revealed the wide-ranging and increasing health dangers posed by long-term weather extremes in the UK, as the effects of climate change deepen. A new report has revealed for the first ...
We’re now halfway through the UK government’s critical decade for tackling climate change – and 2025 is fast becoming a year of climate U-turns. As carbon budget and energy policy researchers, we ...
Among key factors such as economic challenges, high taxes, and scandals plaguing the previous Conservative government, the Labour Party’s landslide victory in the 2024 British elections was also ...
Swedish author was due to speak alongside Palestine Action co-founder at event discussing ban on the group ...