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UK air quality is improving but pollution targets are still being breached – new study

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18 July 202518 July 2025

An estimated 4.2 million deaths can be attributed to poor air quality each year. Poor air quality is the largest fixable environmental public health risk in the world. Our new...Read More >

Cleaner air in east Asia has driven recent acceleration in global warming – new study

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16 July 202521 July 2025

Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening is still unclear, and among the biggest questions...Read More >

Delhi: how weather patterns and faraway mountains made this the world’s most polluted megacity

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5 March 20253 March 2025

Delhi is perhaps the most polluted of the world’s megacities. Every winter, the city’s 30 million residents breathe air so toxic that visibility drops to mere metres. If you stand...Read More >

Why meteorologists are comparing Storm Éowyn to a bomb

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27 January 202527 January 2025

Storm Éowyn makes landfall on Ireland as | European Union/Copernicus Marine Service Data, CC BY Storm Éowyn has unleashed strong and damaging winds over the British Isles, and particularly over...Read More >

COP29: How fast is Earth warming?

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22 November 202419 December 2024

In September 1933, American meteorologist Joseph Kincer asked a simple question: is the climate changing? So began the effort to understand the scope of humanity’s interference with the climate. By...Read More >

Will the Earth warm by 2°C or 5.5°C? Either way it’s bad, and trying to narrow it down may be a distraction

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18 October 202425 October 2024

Climate change is usually discussed in terms of rising temperatures. But scientists often use a different measure, known as “equilibrium climate sensitivity”. This is defined as the global mean warming...Read More >

Victorian technology for measuring the weather is still remarkably accurate – new research

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2 September 202419 August 2024

A small, white box with horizontal slats is a familiar sight at weather stations around the UK, and around the world. This louvred housing for thermometers measuring air temperature was...Read More >

Average months now feel cold thanks to climate change

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9 July 20249 July 2024

People in the UK love discussing the weather. For the first two weeks of June 2024, the cold, dull conditions were all they could talk about. Major news outlets like...Read More >

Why we’re hunting through a century of data from Britain’s northernmost observatory

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26 June 2024

Built in 1913 as a naval radio station, the Shetland Isles’ Met Office at Lerwick provides the temperature reading you see on the top right-hand corner of the UK weather...Read More >

Why does it feel so cold in the UK right now – and when will it warm up?

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29 April 202429 April 2024

It looks like spring, but it doesn’t feel anything like it. The trees have green leaves, the flowers are blooming, yet it’s hard to believe that next week is May,...Read More >

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