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30 Mar 2016

Linking Extreme weather events to climate change: Scientists’ thinking

Climate change experts always warn of exceptional weather and earlier this year we highlighted this in relation to the northern floods and rainfall levels. This set of five articles outlines how thinking is changing on: 1 & 2 How scientists are attributing exceptional weather events to climate change 3 – 5 Cover more extremes: global temperatures […]

13 Jul 2015

Vast methane ‘plumes’ seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats

News

Independent: ‘Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research […]