climate

25 October 2026, Sunday

11:00 World International team measures how fast the Cerro Blanco glacier is shrinking Scientists from five countries spent three weeks on the ice in the Andes, using radar and drones to measure its thickness, and found it has lost a fifth of its area in 20 years. Jonah Becker

22 October 2026, Thursday

11:27 Technology Eastmoor data centre waste heat to warm 2,000 homes in district heating pilot Heat pumped from the cooling systems of the data centre on the Eastmoor industrial estate will be piped to nearby homes and a school, in a pilot the council hopes could later cover much of the east of the city. Aisha Rahman

21 October 2026, Wednesday

04:08 World Wrenhaven scientists join survey tracking giant iceberg off West Antarctica Researchers from the Wrenhaven Marine Institute are part of an international team following a newly calved iceberg roughly twice the size of the city as it drifts away from a West Antarctic glacier. Ingrid Halvorsen