The Whaley Bridge dam collapse is terrifying – but it will soon be dwarfed by far greater eco-disasters

The Independent 2nd August 2019. The phrase “I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life” has been uttered a great deal in the north of England this week. In some places an entire month’s rain fell in four hours. Small streams that are usually a few inches deep …

Europe is burning just as new research offers a chilling truth about the volatility of climate change

The Independent 24th July 2019 It’s not the fall that will kill you, but the suddenness of the stopping. Just as it is with a plane crash, so it is with global heating. Changes in the climate don’t in themselves represent a significant risk – the Earth’s climate has been …

Europe is cooking in yet another heatwave. Our attempts to outrun climate change are futile

The Independent 27th June 2019. Countries across Europe are bracing themselves for potentially lethally high temperatures this week. While there are no indications that an event as extreme as the 2003 heatwave, which killed 70,000 people, is likely, thermometers could rise to 45C in some places, and with it an …

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