Graph showing Antarctic Sea Ice extent (area of ocean with at least 15% sea ice in millions of sq metres). A blue line drops in Feb/March from the average range to just above the record minimum of 2023 (shown as a red line) and rises again in May to just below the average range.

News From The Planet Spring 2025

So much has changed in a year since I updated the News From The Planet. Trump is now in power again in US and some of the scientific data sources that I have been using that monitor climate, weather and CO2 have been shut down or moved, luckily the datasets I use here are still functioning. I will continue to post the News From The Planet, seek out the data and turn them into stories, haikus and messages for the Future Machine as the future comes.

Antarctic Spring 2025
Lost. From the South Pole.
The largest drifting iceberg.
Melts in rising seas.
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph

Arctic Spring 2025
Arctic’s warming Spring.
Ice melts to watery sea,
More than the most lost

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph
Graph showing Arctic Sea Ice extent (area of ocean with at least 15% sea ice in millions of sq metres). A blue line begins in January way below the mean average range (12.5 compared to 13.8) and the record minimum of 2012 (13) and continues below the record minimum onwards to May 2025

Nottingham Spring 2025
Flowers bloom from waste.
Christ Church Gardens rewilded.
Blossoms, flower pink.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/

Graph showing Central England Mean Temperature (difference from 1961-1990 average in centigrade). From 1660-1990 the graph shows the temperatures mainly 0.5+ below the averages. From 1990 the are 0.5+ above apart from 1990 and 2010. In 2024 it reached 1.5 above the averages. The highest is 1.7 C above the average in 2020.

Planet Earth April 2025
Wildfires burning.
Our changing planet heats, floods.
Yet joy! Spring is here.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121

A graph showing the global temperature anomaly in centigrade. Starting at -0.14 in 1880 it reached 1.28 in 2028.
Graph showing global carbon dioxide levels (CO2 parts per million) starting at 317.87 in 1958. It reached 425.55ppm on Jul 17th 2024.
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