🌊 Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds "A 7.2% decline for every 0.1°C/decade might sound small, but compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate change could fragment habitat for monarch butterflies, disrupting mass migration phys.org/news/2026-02...

“Ecosystems are very delicate webs of interactions, and if there is one element out of sync, especially with the plants, which are the basis of the ecosystem, things can fall apart at every level of the ecosystem” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Air conditioning is both an adaptive response to heat stress and a contributor to radiative forcing. As warming drives higher cooling demand, the AC-associated emissions amplify warming in return. ...a textbook positive feedback loop (and deep irony) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate change is drying out the ‘forgotten rivers’ that keep the Murray-Darling alive. Australia needs a new plan. theconversation.com/climate-chan...

🌊 Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant – video Pavona clavus coral colony spanning ~111 m max length and area of ~3,973 sq m – about half the size of a football field. www.theguardian.com/global/video...

Wildfires and volcanoes = natural climate experiments Beyond Mount Pinatubo, study detects clear global temperature fingerprints from the 2019–20 Australian fires and the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption. Smoke and water vapor matter… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them theconversation.com/extreme-weat...

🌊 Human activity is making the Arctic’s waters louder theconversation.com/human-activi...

Enhanced rock weathering could help remove CO2 by spreading crushed Si-rich rock on soils But scaling it up isn’t simple. Limited suitable rock, potential toxic elements, soil impacts, uncertain carbon tracking from land to ocean, and financing are major challenges www.nature.com/articles/s43...

When evidence alone isn’t enough, what does responsible scientific conduct look like? As climate scientists, our responses differ: research, policy, teaching, or protest. Different paths, same evidence. We’re all trying to serve science and future generations. theconversation.com/how-climate-...

🌊 Experts warn of rapid loss of water in the Baltic Sea: 'A vibrant reef is turning into an underwater wasteland www.euronews.com/2026/02/22/e...

Less snow, or more risk? What you need to know about avalanches and climate change www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

What if warming doesn’t slow down but it speeds up? A cascade of climate tipping points could push Earth toward a much hotter future, faster than expected A new study warns of a self-reinforcing path toward “hothouse Earth” The window to cut emissions is narrowing www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Interesting read if you are in the UK… How the UK is keeping flood insurance affordable – until 2039 theconversation.com/how-the-uk-i...

please, PLEASE, don’t tell Trump Antarctica’s ice melt could expose minerals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

This waterlogged corner of England was once only habitable during summer. Climate change could make it so again ...the Somerset Levels theconversation.com/this-waterlo...

Onset of millennial climate variability with the intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation New study shows orbital and MCV co-evolved as glacial boundary conditions changed with the progressive iNHG during the late Pliocene. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why has it been so wet this winter (in the UK)? www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/wh...

The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements - a review "Global warming must peak below 2°C, return to below 1.5°C as quickly as possible (i.e. within this century), and to around 1°C thereafter to limit tipping point risks". iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The silent impact of climate change on mental health: what is eco-anxiety? www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

Extreme climatic events (floods, droughts, heatwaves) are reshaping riverine biodiversity by eroding genetic diversity, altering communities, and disrupting ecosystems. Recovery is slow, and compounding events pose a major emerging threat… www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Study shows the number of days with synchronous ‘fire weather’ (hot, dry, and windy conditions) has nearly tripled globally in the past 45 years. 60% of the increase tied to human-caused climate change In 2023, South America saw 118 of these dangerous days! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Trump retreats from climate goals, China is becoming a green superpower www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science (and they are not good) www.esa.int/Applications...

How is this even possible? One in nine new homes in England built in areas of flood risk, study shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nearly half of Americans think they'll see catastrophic impacts of climate change in their lifetimes ...so naturally we’re dismantling climate science infrastructure, stepping back from global coordination like the IPCC, while chanting “drill, baby, drill". today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Volcanism-induced collapse and recovery of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation under glacial conditions www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Human-induced climate change amplification on storm dynamics in Valencia’s 2024 catastrophic flash flood It increased 6-hr rainfall rate by 21%, expanded the area with >180 mm of rain by 55%, and raised total rain volume in the Jucar River catchment by 19% (+pre-ind) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Au revoir steak-frites? French government urges citizens to ‘limit’ meat consumption to fight climate change Recommendations for a 20% reduction in meat and dairy consumption by 2030, increasing to 35% by 2050, to meet climate targets. www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

There is a tendency to act as if climate change adaptation is a ‘get out of jail free’ card Adapting to ongoing climate change will involve huge disruption to our systems It would be so much simpler to act to stop further climate change

Climate change coverage fell 14% globally in 2025, while the world endured record heat, raging wildfires, and devastating floods. The crisis intensified. The headlines didn’t. Less coverage = less urgency. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

Planning for ~3C isn’t “giving up” on 1.5C. It’s realistic risk management. Europe is already feeling the impacts. Current adaptation plans aren’t enough. The message: act now on resilience, heat, floods, infrastructure, or pay far higher costs later. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos @1.5C 👀 #ClimateAbandon UK Fresh fears for South West's rail link in Dawlish www.bbc.com/news/article...

Antarctica isn’t one big tipping point. New research maps 18 separate ice basins, each with its own threshold. Some in West Antarctica may tip at just ~1–2C warming (i.e close to today’s levels). Cross the line, and you commit to m’s of sea-level rise over centuries www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊 Turtles breeding earlier, but half as often, due to climate change oceanographicmagazine.com/news/turtles...

New dashboard to visualise CRU-TS country averages (i.e. CRU-CY) for temperature, precipitation, humidity and drought area (using our scPDSI indicator). (It takes a little while to first load, but is quite responsive after that) climate.uea.co/CRU-Timeseri...

Defining transformational adaptation and why it matters Based on a 3-round global expert survey, they identify 13 core elements needed to drive deep, lasting climate resilience. Bottom line: Surviving climate change requires transformation, not adjustment... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Tir Natur’s chair, said: 'This site will demonstrate what’s possible when we allow nature to take the lead and work for people again. It’s a hopeful, practical vision anyone can contribute to.'" Great news! (But I'd to see humans fitting within nature rather than "nature working for people")

Can crushed silicate rock help cool the planet? A new study suggests that enhanced rock weathering could remove up to 1.1 Gt CO₂/year by 2100 if it scales as past technologies have. Climate solutions aren’t just chemical: they’re social. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌊 One of the ocean's saltiest regions is freshening: What it means for circulation phys.org/news/2026-02...

Climate extremes × demographic momentum = famine amplification Climate change could expose >1.1 billion people to at least one severe food crisis by 2100 under high emissions Mitigation halves the risk theconversation.com/climate-chan...

This matters… physicstoday.aip.org/news/what-th...

🌊 Climate change in Antarctica is anything but uniform. Regional hotspots. Seasonal reversals. Early biological signals. The story is more than “less ice = collapse”. Complex, uneven, and already unfolding. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Dead, gone, over": Trump scraps research behind US climate regulations oceanographicmagazine.com/news/dead-go...

Saving a few #$K on a car today Spending trillions on climate disasters tomorrow Buy now, pay forever www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Surge-type glaciers (~3,000 globally) exhibit episodic, order-of-magnitude accelerations linked to shifts in basal thermal and hydrological regimes. A new synthesis examines surge mechanisms and how climate warming may reconfigure surge dynamics and downstream risk. phys.org/news/2026-02...

🌊 Climate-driven reproductive decline in Southern right whales www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inconvenient truth… Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses theconversation.com/trump-says-c...