The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850. It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!

very far sighted from their gov - will reduce fossil fuel dependency. btw, ethiopia is not the only country to do this. Laos does it as well, only for 1/2 year though, for now.

Greenland’s glaciers are producing four times as many icebergs as at the turn of the millennium, a new study shows. A titanic danger? france24.com/en/live-news/20…

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and its benefits. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil fuel emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13…

Unexpected good news. Electric car sales are booming in Ethiopia, of all places. The result of being the first country worldwide to ban the import of one’s with internal combustion engines. Pioneering… dw.com/en/ethiopia-electric-…

We are losing Antarctica and when we lost Antarctica we lose the planet as Earth will be too hot Temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have reached a record-breaking high of 15.4C for June, and ice is melting at abnormal rates during the current winter phys.org/news/2026-06-antarc…

Antarctic surface melt could jump tenfold this century as warming spreads phys.org/news/2026-06-antarc…

Global warming is cutting the production of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic, undermining the entire food web and limiting its ability to soak up carbon, a new study reveals. Looks serious…. oceanographicmagazine.com/ne…

Plastic bottles take 450 years to degrade. They’ve only been around for about 50, so the plastic in every one that has ever been chucked will be in the environment for at least four more centuries. spacedaily.com/d-a-single-pl…

Our lawn after no-mow May.

Our 2026 Indicators of Global Climate Change paper is out! We find that the human-induced warming was 1.37C in 2025, and the current rate of warming is 0.27C per decade, on track to firmly pass 1.5C in about four years.

A major new report warns that global wildlife populations have been cut in half in just four decades due to unsustainable human consumption and widespread habitat destruction. According to the Living Planet Report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), average monitored wildlife populations declined by 50% between 1970 and 2010. The Living Planet Index, which tracked more than 10,000 populations across roughly 3,000 vertebrate species, paints a sobering picture of humanity’s impact on biodiversity. Freshwater ecosystems were hit hardest, suffering a 75% decline due to pollution, water extraction, and dam construction. Terrestrial and marine populations both fell by around 40%, driven by habitat loss and overexploitation. The underlying driver is humanity’s expanding ecological footprint. Global consumption already requires the resources of 1.5 Earths to sustain. This burden is highly unequal: the average U.S. resident would need nearly four Earths, while the average UK resident would require 2.5 Earths. Wealthier nations often export their environmental impact through imported goods linked to deforestation and habitat destruction in developing countries. The report calls for urgent global action, including a shift to sustainable food systems, greater resource equity, and stronger habitat protection to reverse these trends. [WWF. (2014). Living Planet Report 2014: Species and spaces, people and places. World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland, Switzerland]

The rate of sea level rise has doubled in the last 20 years as climate change accelerated. Just over half of it is down to melting ice, almost all the rest due to ocean water expanding as it warms up. sciencealert.com/sea-level-r…

A double betrayal. First the government takes a savage axe to overseas aid in order to pay for an increase in defence - a measure defence chiefs protest itself damages national security - then it fails to fund it anyway. unprincipled and incompetent . thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…

Concerns over US company’s gas fracking plan for world’s most intact tropical savanna in WA revealed Federal environment department says Black Mountain Energy has provided insufficient data as it seeks to drill 20 gas wells in the Kimberley region theguardian.com/australia-ne…

A single buyer for electricity in UK would cut prices, Thinktank finds theguardian.com/environment/…

There’s a heatwave in Antarctica which is, of course, approaching midwinter. Temperatures have exceeded 15C, hotter than the (near midsummer) level at my southern U.K. home as I write. Only the response to global heating seems to be in deep freeze…. theguardian.com/environment/…

The Himalayas are turning green. But, despite what CO2 fans say, this is not good news. It’s shrinking the glaciers on which up to 1.6 billion depend for water supplies, among other ill effects. ecoticias.com/en/scientists-…

We'll take all the good news we can get.