Eight thousand years ago, an undersea cliff slid into the Arctic Ocean, sending a terrifying tsunami hurtling into the British coastline, inundating the land from Northumberland to the Shetland Isles. It was called the Storegga Slide. Dr Anna Lomax, an ecologist, working in the Arctic, sees...
Another hot summer grips the UK. Floods, droughts and wild weather mark the end of the benign Holocene period where human civilization prospered. The climate emergency has arrived sooner than anyone could have predicted. Crops fail and food riots rip apart the social order. Then, Ava Cooper, a climate scientist...
Dr Dan Selby, a socio-meteorologist working for Clifton university, suspects that the climate, peppered by ferocious storms, has flipped to a new phase of instability and extremes. Selby's phrase, 'the Credit Crunch of the eco-systems,' links the collapsing economies of the western world and the...
When a series of earthquakes spreads through the Arctic and northern Europe, Inuit hunters bring back rumours from Greenland's interior of a massive rupture in the ice sheet. Zoe Carter, a scientist specialising in abrupt climate change, suspects that something is seriously wrong. Then Zoe,...
When Katla, a volcano in Iceland, suffers a massive eruption, the ash plume heads towards Britain and northern Europe and brings chaos in its wake. It's the beginning of May and the country grinds to a standstill as planes are grounded, cars choke and power...