Every year, the State of Wildfires report brings together the latest science on extreme fire monitoring, prediction and modelling to track how wildfire impacts are changing and to explain the drivers behind these shifts.
These briefing notes were prepared to accompany each session of the Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference, held in September 2025.
The coming decade is critical in addressing the climate change challenge. This briefing note looks at the situation we face and and the research themes we will cover at our Critical Decade for Climate Action conference in 2025.
Our 2005 report was seminal in providing a comprehensive roadmap for reducing the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions across all economic sectors.
Policymakers, advocates, researchers and others around the world are increasingly considering how national policies can best advance climate change solutions that protect health, as well as health solutions that protect the climate.
This report shows that the Fens – one of the UK’s most vital agricultural and ecological regions – faces unprecedented threat because of rising temperatures, sea level rise, and escalating climate risks, unless action is taken.
This briefing note argues that existing data and understanding are sufficient to make a sound estimation of each country’s contribution to climate change, which means that lack of data should not hinder decisions around legal obligations.
A pilot toolkit for Local Authority land managers that prioritises and enhances carbon storage combined with increasing biodiversity in line with environmental policies.
This fall an international group of scientists, practitioners, students, donors, film-makers, policy makers and diplomats gathered in Nairobi for the annual Forest and Livelihoods meeting – known as FLARE.
Photo: Brian Egan Key Points: The East of England is at the sharp end of climate change. It has the lowest average rainfall and highest average temperatures in England. 20%
Read about our briefing notes on the topics: Activism and advocacy as a researcher; Incoming Labour? How can the Tyndall Centre can help shape the future of UK climate policy?; and Incoming Labour? How can the Tyndall Centre can help shape the future of UK climate policy?
Shore power connects ships to land-side power networks, so they don’t need to burn fuel oil in their auxiliary engines to produce electricity for onboard use while in port, reducing air pollution
What happens in early decades is crucial. Tyndall research sets out what this insight means for the shipping sector:
Shore power connects ships to land-side power networks, so they don’t need to burn fuel oil in their auxiliary engines to produce electricity for onboard use while in port, reducing air pollution
There is a rapidly-depleting “carbon budget” of CO2 emissions the shipping sector can emit in future, if it is to do its part in keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C.
This post builds on the article ‘Economic well-being and self-placements on a Left-Right scale: Evidence from undergraduate students in seven countries’, which is forthcoming in the Journal of Political Ideologies.
Countries are betting on forests and soils to mop up their remaining “difficult-to-decarbonise” emissions to achieve their climate targets.
Audience travel is widely acknowledged as a major component of the overall contribution live music makes to climate change.
This briefing has been prepared for a meeting of the members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the East of England
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester set out ten recommendations for how the UK’s planned Clean Maritime Plan refresh can align with Paris Agreement goals.
Harsh Vasani, Toby S. James and Holly Ann Garnett assess the likely impact of the bill and the potential lessons other countries could draw from it.
A climate resilient development pathway (CRDP) is ‘a development pathway that actively and deliberately chooses policies and practices that strengthen mitigation and adaptation outcomes and that enables an equitable, just,
As climate change makes hot and dry conditions – often termed “fire weather” – more common and severe, vegetation dries out and landscapes become more flammable, pushing up the odds of dangerous wildfires.
A medida que el clima se calienta, los episodios de sequía, altas temperaturas y baja humedad se vuelven más frecuentes y extremos.
Ethiopian farmers are increasingly cultivating grass pea, a hardy crop ideally suited to the weather extremes that climate change will bring.
The BSIM can analyse individual elements within bioeconomy projects from specific biomass resources, supply chains, technologies, or whole bioeconomy project value chains.
So, we have this year revisited everything that what we do across all our disciplines and universities at UEA, Manchester, Cardiff, Newcastle and Sussex. Where can we together make the biggest, fastest difference?
Call for evidence on shore power: Implementing maritime commitments in the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, response form Tyndall Manchester
This document assesses the growing regulatory and societal pressure to limit the impacts of climate change, how this applies to shipping, and the implications of this for Scottish ports and agencies concerned with climate change.
The article focuses on the south Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to understand the proximate causes for these shifts.
What are the areas where lifestyle changes may be most needed to reach the Government’s longterm climate change and environment goals and commitments?
The Arctic region has warmed at least twice as much as the global average, leading to a number of environmental consequences. The extent and thickness of sea-ice have decreased and rates of permafrost thaw have increased in recent decades.
But what scientists often overlook when predicting the future capacity of these technologies is how society will need to change to accommodate them.
A new ScienceBrief Review entitled: “Climate change is probably increasing the intensity of tropical cyclones” was published today on the ScienceBrief platform. This Review is part of series on Critical Issues in
A new ScienceBrief Review entitled: “Independent expert advisory bodies facilitate ambitious climate policy responses” was published on the ScienceBrief platform and our news page. This ScienceBrief Review examines emerging evidence of the impact
The global pandemic has seen an unprecedented drop in global emissions, with carbon dioxide down about 7% (or 2.6 billion tonnes) in 2020 overall compared to 2019.
The UNEP synthesis report, Making Peace with Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies, ‘co-led by Sir Bob Watson FRS and co-authored by Prof Rachel Warren, who are both from
Global emissions are expected to decline by about 7% in 2020 (or 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide) compared to 2019 — an unprecedented drop due to the slowdown in economic activity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
New scientific publications reviewed since January 2020 strengthen the evidence that climate change increases the frequency and/or severity of fire weather– periods with a high fire risk due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, low rainfall and often high winds– in many regions around the world. The western United States is among the regions where the trends in fire weather have been most pronounced in the past at least 40 years. Fire activity is influenced by a range of other factors including land management practices. However, land management alone cannot explain recent increases in wildfire extent and intensity in the western US or southeast Australia because increased fire weather amplifies fire risk where fuels remain available.
With the long-term impact of the current crisis on global economies yet to be understood, a vast number of social enterprises are likely to suffer after the lockdown due to severe constraints to their operations. What will this mean for alternative business in Nigeria and how can one prepare their organisation for this new reality? A recent CUSP workshop engaged with social entrepreneurs, reflecting on their strategies. Here, Adeyemi and colleagues are summarising the learnings.
This consultation response begins by briefly setting out some context to “green economy, which has been re-labelled and re-packaged several times, partly to make the idea more attractive and agreeable to a wider audience. The European Union’s (EU’s) articulation of a ‘Green Deal’ offers a useful reference.
The numbers of people cycling and walking in public spaces during COVID-19 has skyrocketed. Cities from Bogota to Berlin and Vancouver have expanded bike lanes and public paths to accommodate the extra cycling traffic. In Australia, the New South Wales government is encouraging councils to follow suit.
Earth’s forests oxygenate the atmosphere and store vast quantities of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO₂). But research suggests that the health of these vast ecosystems in large part depends on the work of indigenous people.
We believe from what we have heard that there is an increasing need for the type of interdisciplinary research and analysis that we do.
The journal of the Royal Society today publishes the science outcomes of the Conference in Oxford in September 2016, Meeting the Challenges of the Paris Agreement hosted by the Environmental Change Institute
“The report provides an incredibly detailed picture of the risks of a warming planet and how they grow as the warming intensifies. The message could not be clearer. Widespread, concerted and
The first and most in-depth analysis of climate change opinions in some of Europe’s largest countries has revealed an overwhelming belief that climate change is happening. The report, conducted by Tyndall
The ‘UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Report’ reveals that the impacts of climate change are already being felt in the UK, and that urgent action is required to address
The Tyndall Effect highlights the past year’s activities of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. This is the Tyndall Effect for 2008. You can download here or read below:
The Tyndall Effect highlights the past year’s activities of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. This is the Tyndall Effect for 2006. You can download here or read below:
The Tyndall Effect highlights the past year’s activities of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. This is the Tyndall Effect for 2004. You can download here or read below:
