climate change

Emma Burnett As wildfires spread across Europe, the European Space Agency warns that the summer season of 2023 would be ‘potentially the hottest temperatures recorded in Europe.’ Southern European nations are facing high temperatures and heat waves this summer, with Italy and Spain a sweltering 49 and 45 degrees...

For the second year running, Nottingham has been ranked in the top 12% of A-list scoring cities for climate action. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an environmental impact non-profit organisation, ranked over 1,000 cities in 2022 and Nottingham was recognised for the success of CN28. By 2028 Nottingham aims...

On 15th November, the world’s population reached 8 billion people. Impact's Lorenzo Capito takes a look at the severity of rapidly rising (and declining) populations across our continents, and the various consequences that this new figure can be expected to have....

According to a recent UN report, global greenhouse gas emissions have experienced limited reductions since COP26. The international community, the report warns, must go further and faster on net zero in order to meet global targets. The 1.5°C goal of global warming is rapidly slipping away.  Matthew Murray writes...

With the rise of social media activism and the appearance of figures like Greta Thunberg, the public’s concern for climate change has increased in recent years. With this, so has the level of actionable activism surrounding it. Protests have become more and more extreme, with increasing vandalism, destruction and...

In September of 2021, University of Nottingham student Daria Paterek launched her 'Nottingham on Ecosia' campaign, to adopt Ecosia as the universities default search engine. As of the 4th of March 2022, Ecosia has now gone live in all computer rooms....

Eleanor Ames delves into whether the recently UK storms which have caused destructing all across the country could have been caused by climate change, and if this is just the beginning of more extreme weather......