A year of change

I sit here writing now, in the beautiful mountains of Portugal, and the scientists are increasingly concerned that the 1.5⁰C safe(ish) threshold of planetary warming will be passed in 2027. I am in a small village surrounded by Eucalyptus plantations for the paper industry, which smell glorious but are combustible and dangerous. If you walk through the roads between the monocultures you discover pockets…

Action begets action

Microorganisms in our oceans

There is a feeling among my friends and colleagues, it fills the algorithms of my social media too. This feeling is nearly despairing, a clamouring and call to action on the climate. Yet, days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and years have come and gone. New leadership in the UK heralds yet more back-turning, away from the facts, the truths of global temperature…