COP 26 UK Progress on Implementing Plans

With UK hosting the upcoming COP it would be natural to assume that Boris Johnson and Alok Sharma would be doing their utmost to take a lead and set a standard for other participants. The Climate Change Committee (CCC), the official advisers to the government, in a report released on 24 June 2021 aren't too…

Glacier Mass Loss in the Early 21st Century Reassessed

In an exercise which sourced data from satellite archives, researches have come up with more precise figures for the loss of ice from glaciers, in fact from some 220,000 glaciers but excluding the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. This has been made possible by the ability to precisely track changes in surface elevation, with…