Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System Modelling Scientific Software Engineer in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Are you keen to apply ...

🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Software Engineer!
Join the UKESM team to help develop and optimise the next generation UK Earth System Model for tipping point research.
💼 Grade 7 (£41k–£48k) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling Research Fellow in Earth System ModellingSalary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience)Location: Met Office, Exeter (with scope for hybrid working)Would you like to join a team asses...

🚀 We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling: develop the UKESM2 model and use it to investigate tipping points.
📍 Grade 7 (£41,064–£48,822) Location: Met Office, Exeter
🌍 Apply today! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes: 26 February

UKESM

We’ve refreshed our UKESM website with clearer navigation and easier access to key resources. Feel free to explore the new layout and tell us what else you’d like to see👀💻📱 ukesm.ac.uk

🌍 Earth System Insights: from our Horizon Projects Briefing 6 European Horizon projects gathered their insights together for an in-depth forum with the European Commission (DG RTD & DG CLIMA). Here’s what they had to say 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4pgvktX #ClimateAction #EarthSystem #HorizonEU

Check out the new research highlight from @esm2025.bsky.social on the impact of land management strategies 'Can we count on the land?'

Cities won’t stay livable by 2050 unless mitigation and adaptation become one strategy.

Flood risks, heatwaves, energy demand and mobility issues all interact. SECAPs rarely show the full picture. Without assessing how measures influence each other, good intentions can turn into bad outcomes.

Nature security is shared security.

On 20 Nov, join us at the UK Pavilion to explore how protecting biodiversity—from the Amazon to the UK—strengthens global resilience.
• Stability
• Climate
• Health

Watch the event live here: youtube.com/live/g1L6RB3...

At #COP30 today - Wildfires: Science, Stories, and Strategies for Resilience in Amazonia

UKCEH with Fundacion Avina, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and University of East Anglia

UK Pavilion or livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/VNg-QCfYbvQ

Wildfires are becoming a defining climate-related challenge. Their inclusion in the UNFCCC Loss & Damage framework is essential, researchers say.

New in @commsearth.nature.com buff.ly/nNXUyyU

UKCEH co-author Maria Barbosa is at #COP30 next week to discuss #wildfires science 🔥

Climate disinformation is delaying responses to extreme weather events & climate solutions

We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30

@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/

🍷Join our wine sector webinar!

ASPECT invites wine sector professionals to an exclusive webinar on Thursday 11th December titled “Climate information for the wine sector: from seasons to years ahead”

👉 Info: buff.ly/LFKwABt
👉 Register: buff.ly/6rRHkfi

COP30 and climate science in action - NCAS Stories of climate science in action at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science during COP30.

It’s clear that atmospheric science plays a vital role in our collective effort to tackle climate change.

As #COP30 begins, check out our 4 stories of climate science in action: ncas.ac.uk/cop30-and-cl...

Long-term monitoring tells a story of change. For 80 years scientists have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes in Cumbria, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping our freshwater ecosystems.

It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎

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Climate Research at the Heart of EU Policy: Six Projects Unite to Inform Decision-Making Climate research provides the scientific foundation of the European Union’s climate policies, including the ambitious European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. Scienti…

6 EU-funded climate & Earth system modelling projects—@esm2025.bsky.social, @optimesm-eu.bsky.social, @tipesm.bsky.social, @climtip.bsky.social, @rescueclimate.bsky.social & NextGEMS—came together for a clustered science-to-policy meeting to present insights.💬🌐 ukesm.ac.uk/climate-rese...

Fiery hilly landscape burning and the text Submit your abstracts to our session Extreme Fires and their Impacts

📢 Call for Abstracts #EGU26

🔥 Session: Extreme Fires and Impacts (BG1.2/NH14.22)

We invite case studies on regional extreme wildfires, their impacts, & prevention or mitigation strategies worldwide. Contributions welcome from multiple disciplines!

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

Image of a large building on fire at night, with bright flames engulfing multiple sections. Emergency response vehicles are visible at the scene.

Co-led by the UEA, @ukceh.bsky.social, @metoffice.gov.uk and @ecmwf.int the second annual State of Wildfires report has found that human-driven climate change made wildfires many times larger and more destructive.

Read more 👉 bit.ly/47sZNhC

#Research #Wildfires #ClimateChange #NewReport

LA Fires Credit: Getty Images

The 2024–2025 State of Wildfires report shows a paradox: less land burned, but record carbon released.

ECMWF scientists analysed what drove wildfire events and generated air-quality datasets.

➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Severe heatwaves and droughts are making extreme wildfires more frequent and intense worldwide The latest State of Wildfire report is building unequivocal evidence of how climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme wildfires.

Report reveals climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s wildfires 🔥

The State of Wildfires report, co-led by the Met Office, @ukceh.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social & @ecmwf.int evidences the link between climate change and wildfire activity.

Read more⬇️

Charred heathland with one clump of green grass, and the text New podcast episode: The Burning Issue 3.7million

🎧 The latest episode of Counting the Earth focuses on how wildfires are evolving, with devastating impacts on humans, the economy and the environment.

Listen now on your #podcast provider: audioboom.com/posts/879159...

Climate change drove extreme wildfire seasons across the Americas, making burned areas around 30 times larger Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts.

🔥 The annual reports of global #wildfires provide important evidence about wildfires, their extent, causes and impacts in different parts of the world and how this is changing over time.

🔗 See our news story: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/climat...

🔗 State of Wildfires project: stateofwildfires.com

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TerraFIRMA & UKESM project member Dr Douglas Kelley introduced the latest State of Wildfires report he co-led🔥🌍

Cover of The State of Wildfires 2024-2025 report

Infographic with ten points titled Unpacking the wildfire season

Flames continuing to burn in charred remains of buildings

🔥 Human-driven global warming made recent wildfires in South America & Southern California much larger & more destructive, the latest State of Wildfires report reveals.

🔸 LA wildfires 25× larger, 2× as likely
🔸 Pantanal–Chiquitano fires 35× larger
🔸 Global CO₂ from fires >8 bn tonnes

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As we prepare for the Arctic Circle #Assembly2025 we're highlighting NOC's Arctic work.

🌡️ The Arctic may be ice-free in summer by 2050, with global impacts. 🌍

Projects like CANARI focus on how this affects extreme weather and the UK. 🇬🇧🌦️

More on our Arctic projects here:
noc.ac.uk/science/arct...

Day 3. GA's last morning: Wrap-up & perspectives with @rolandseferian.bsky.social and others.

4.5 years together. In a little over a month the project ends. Today we celebrate what we built in science and in community.

#ESM2025inToulouse is over.

Back from lunch at #ESM2025inToulouse!
"The REF is a complete end to end system providing a systematic & rapid performance assess. of the expected models participating in the CMIP Assess. Fast Track, supporting the next IPCC AR7 cycle."
Ranjini Swaminathan @uniofreading.bsky.social @wcrp-cmip.org

The UKESM team is participating in #ESM2025inToulouse and looks forward to the gathering, sharing and discussion.🌐

A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering

YESS, the Young Earth System Scientists community, is an interdisciplinary, international, bottom-up early career researchers (ECR) network in Earth system science, collaborating & exchanging on a range of themes through webinars, workshops, learning groups, etc. Find out more www.yess-community.org

A large blue and white aircraft with the letters FAAM on its tail glides through a cloudy sky, with green patches of land far below. Text says: 'Happy birthday, G-LUXE!'.

It’s our research aircraft’s birthday this week!

It’s the oldest airliner still flying in the UK - albeit studying the atmosphere rather than carrying passengers ✈️

Since 2004, it's helped scientists to learn more about the Earth’s atmosphere, weather, climate change, and air pollution.

Photograph of bright sun in a clear blue sky with clouds at the bottom. Text reads: 'Met Office NEWS RELEASE 26 August 2025 – This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK.'

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...