climate change

• A new study led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed a change in the colour of the ocean over the last 20 years.
• Scientists believe this colour difference is due to the impact of climate change on plankton ecosystems.

• The last 40 years have seen temperatures in UK seas rise by more than a degree.
• UK seas are predicted to warm by more than three degrees Celsius by 2100.
• Large increase in marine heat waves can have profound effects on global marine ecosystems.

• Seafloor cables carry over 95% of all digital data traffic worldwide, crucial to our everyday lives.
• A new global study led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed how climate change may increase the threats posed by natural hazards to these networks.

Leading scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have discovered that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is not showing a detectable decline as previous studies from other scientists have suggested. A decline in the AMOC would contribute to extreme weather and climate decline in North America and Europe.

The BAMS State of the Climate report 2021, released yesterday (31 August), has provided a comprehensive update on Earth’s climate indicators, notable weather events and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice and in space.

The latest annual report shows the continuation of warmer than average years and increasing rate of sea level rise around the UK.

Earlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its next report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have discovered shifts in tipping points driven by climate change, during a study investigating 21st century plankton communities.

Weather Rescue at Sea, a Zooniverse based citizen science project to digitise weather observations taken across the oceans in the 1860s is now live!

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today (9 August 2021) released its next report; the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).