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UK peatland fires are supercharging carbon emissions as climate change causes hotter, drier summers

21 Feb 2025

A new study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that as our springs and summers get hotter and drier, the UK wildfire season is being...

Huge locust swarm fills the skies in Ethiopia

Early warning tool will help control huge locust swarms

19 Dec 2024

A new tool that predicts the behaviour of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops...

Climate change will transform cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, study suggests

12 Aug 2021

Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere.

Left: Wheat stem rust. Right: Network map of the atmospheric transmission of spores.

Study identifies likely scenarios for global spread of devastating crop disease

25 Sep 2017

New research reveals for the first time the most likely months and routes for the spread of new strains of airborne ‘wheat stem rust’ that may...

Met Office

UK peatland fires are supercharging carbon emissions as climate change causes hotter, drier summers

Early warning tool will help control huge locust swarms

Climate change will transform cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, study suggests

Study identifies likely scenarios for global spread of devastating crop disease

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