🌧️ New Climate + Co-Centre research: Europe's winters are changing far faster than climate models predicted — wetter in the north, drier in the Mediterranean. Conditions expected in the 2040s are already here.
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Coming soon!
🎶 Un-Natural Frequencies | Inception Horizon by Mellow Tonics
How do you make science stick? Mellow Tonics explore the idea that music stays with us in a way data alone doesn't — bringing groundwater research to life through sound.
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For every £1 directed toward protecting nature in 2023, £33 went toward destroying it.
A landmark new @ipbes.net report sets out what businesses need to do, and the tools already exist to do it.
We've written a short explainer on what it means in practice.
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The People's Emergency Briefing:
🎬 New film fronted by Chris Packham lays out how climate and nature breakdown is already affecting UK life — from food prices to health to national security. Featuring Co-Centre researcher Prof @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social
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🎶 Un-Natural Frequencies | Hare's Corner by Jack Talty
Jack Talty's piece draws on the hare's corner — those wild margins of farmland dismissed as unproductive, but actually vital for biodiversity. It's a piece about celebrating place, and what we risk losing.
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How do you connect the dots between climate, biodiversity, and water data when the datasets don't fit together neatly?
That's the challenge our 'Using AI to Integrate Environmental Data' project is tackling.
🔗Learn more here:https://buff.ly/dTpORu6
Big news for climate research in Ireland🇮🇪
Decarb-AI: AI-Powered Pathways to Climate Resilience’ has launched.
Led by our Deputy Director Prof Andrew Parnell, in partnership with AIB and Research Ireland, it will train PhD researchers to apply AI to environmental challenges
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🌪️ ☔ When storms hit, wind and rain don't take turns. But most risk models treat them as if they do.
A new multi-year Climate + Co-Centre research partnership between Gallagher Re and @newcastleuni.bsky.social is tackling this compound risk blind spot.
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🎶 Un-Natural Frequencies | Diversity, Abandonment & Intensification by Hive Choir
What does biodiversity loss sound like? Hive Choir turned research data into a choral piece — graphs became melodies, data became harmonies, and each singer voiced a different species.
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🇮🇪What happens if Ireland's carbon tax increase doesn't go ahead?
Prof @peterthorne.bsky.social, Principal Investigator at the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water and member of the Climate Change Advisory Council, explains why skipping it could end up costing us more.
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🎶 Un-Natural Frequencies
How do you communicate biodiversity loss, groundwater depletion and flooding to communities already living it? How about with music.
Three performances, filmed inside Aillwee Cave, coming over the next few weeks.
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Co-Centre Principal Investigator Prof @peterthorne.bsky.social (Maynooth University) will continue to bring his climate science expertise to Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC), having been reappointed for a second term.
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What happens when the science we need outgrows our ability to read it?
Our Research Fellows Cat Jones and Daire Healy are exploring how AI can help, responsibly, by grounding outputs in trusted, traceable evidence.
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Today is #WorldMeteorologicalDay 🌍 Hayley Fowler and the team across @newcastleuni.bsky.social, @maynoothuniversity.ie and @uniofreading.bsky.social are building detailed regional climate projections for the UK and Ireland at different warming levels.
Find out more: buff.ly/EwdwtgD
Today is #WorldWaterDay💧
Led by Mary Kelly-Quinn across @ulsteruni.bsky.social, @ucddublin.bsky.social and @unioflimerick.bsky.social, our river restoration research is developing new ways to measure whether restoration is actually working.
Explore the project: buff.ly/vBj5vQL
🌍 Yesterday you met Dr Cat Jones — now meet the project.
Taking Stock of Nature's Carbon, Water and Wildlife uses #AI to synthesise evidence on how peatlands, forests and saltmarshes store carbon and support biodiversity.
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🔬Meet Our Researchers | Dr Cat Jones
Cat is a freshwater ecologist, exploring how AI can help make sense of environmental data.
Recent work includes an AI-powered evidence synthesis project and a Valentine's Day "Data Blitz" rescuing lost biodiversity records 💚
Learn more: buff.ly/Pio5puM
It's #BritishScienceWeek🔬so today we're shining a light on our GB researchers. Teams at @uniofreading.bsky.social, @newcastleuni.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social are tackling climate projections, flood risk and carbon storage across the British and Irish Isles.
Explore the research: buff.ly/v7vruqI
🌍NEW: Peatlands Geoportal - a new online hub for exploring data our peatland landscapes.
It lets you explore, filter, layer and download peatland data in one place, whether you're researching, advising policy, or managing land.
👉 peatlands-geoportal-queensub.hub.arcgis.com
“This award honours the interdisciplinarity of what I do”
After receiving the 2026 Gold Medal by the @ria.ie, @ybuckley.bsky.social reflects on the value of working across disciplines to tackle address climate change, biodiversity loss and declining water quality.
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Our quarterly newsletter covers the latest news, research highlights, real-world impact, and ways to get involved.
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#Hydrology #WaterScience #EarlyCareers @ukceh.bsky.social
Free summer school! 💧
Data Driven Approaches to Hydrological Science | 13–16 July 2026 | Online
Receive training in hydrological data science, machine learning, water resources modelling and FAIR data principles.
Open to postgrads, early career researchers and industry professionals worldwide.
This International Women's Day, we want to recognise every woman in our network contributing to climate, biodiversity, and water research. Your work matters — and so does the environment you do it in. 🌊🌿 #IWD2026
🚀 Is your company ready to tackle its toughest sustainability challenges with AI?
We’re partnering with Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet to run an intensive, one-week AI & Climate Sustainability Sandbox from 23–27 March at @tcddublin.bsky.social
More info & register: climatecocentre.org/events/
develop better predictive tools to inform conservation and land management policy.
Full project details 👉 climatecocentre.org/project/vegetation-change/
#Biodiversity #EcologyResearch
This #WorldWildlifeDay, our researchers are investigating how climate change and land use change are driving biodiversity shifts across the UK and Ireland.
By focusing on species traits (growth rates, life cycles, ecological roles) the project aims to identify future "winners and losers" and
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Gallagher Re to strengthen how flood and wind risks are assessed and managed.
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@hayleyjfowler.bsky.social | #ClimateRisk #Flooding #Resilience (2/2)
When heavy rainfall and strong winds hit together, the damage can be far greater than either hazard alone.
As extreme weather becomes more complex, understanding this compound risk is critical.
Our team of researchers at @newcastleuni.bsky.social are partnering with.. (1/2)