He is seen as one of Britain’s iconic figures: Sir David Attenborough has graced millions of television screens from many a different part of the world to inform viewers of the beauty and plight of the natural world.
Will anyone listen to his latest warning? His message is not new, we have heard it before, but [...]

It’s a tale of two conferences in two cities that are both on the science of climate change. One we should take seriously, the other one we should not.
One is stacked full of thousands of reputable climate scientists, the other the same old, predominantly right-wing corporate funded climate sceptics with a discredited and out-dated message.
First [...]

The other day I went to a lecture by one of Britain’s leading marine scientists. His talk was on the “Other CO2 Problem,” which is not the problem of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, but of rising acidity in the world’s oceans.
The oceans absorb about a third of the CO2 released into the atmosphere [...]