The New Weather Institute welcomes Bill McGuire, the world leading academic authority on climate hazards to its team. Bill has been writing for New Weather for many months, and now he will be even more involved with our work on a rapid transition to a fair economy...
The possibility of rapid transition comes from accepting how much we are a part of nature and its cycles argue Nick Robins and Andrew Simms and marking Smog Day is one way to reconnect On 5th December 1952, a great smog enveloped London, England, killing thousands,...
As scientists call for rapid, far reaching action to prevent climate breakdown, and warn that time is running out, a new, unique international initiative - the Rapid Transition Alliance - is launching to reveal the possibilities and our hidden capacities for making...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
