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Farmers field work. Credit: Gary Keech

A new report recognises the necessity for farming to adjust to climate changes, to adapt and strengthen against extreme weather whilst improving production to address the world’s growing need for food

Dan Grosvenor, from the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, has written for 'The Conversation'.

Caption: Setting up camp on sea ice in the Lincoln Sea, north of Greenland, in March 2014 as part of the ESA CryoVex experiment to measure sea ice properties including the depth of drifting snow.

The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by a third after the summer of 2013 as unusually cool air temperatures prevented the ice from melting, according to University of Leeds and UCL scientists.

Arctic ozone without the Montreal Protocol (left) and following its implementation (right) on 26 March 2011. Credit: Sandip Dhomse

We are already reaping the rewards of the Montreal Protocol, with the ozone layer in much better shape than it would have been without the UN treaty, according to a new study in Nature Communications.

Using heavy equipment to put the lidar on the roof

The NCAS Lidar “Flossy” has been helping a European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Explorer Core Mission, ADM-Aerolus.