List: Extreme Weather Stories | Curated by bridgetmck

Jul 18, 2023
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Extreme Weather StoriesAll the articles on Climate Museum UK's Extreme Weather Stories platform
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Global Heat StormTypically, our Extreme Weather Stories focus on a specific weather event affecting a particular place, trying to surface the experience of…
Jul 17, 2023
Jul 17, 2023
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Living with WildfiresThis is a guest post by Ann Borda, a Climate Museum UK Associate and Honorary Research Associate, University College London, presently…
Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023
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Homelessness and extreme weatherOur friends at the Museum of Homelessness have published the results of an investigation into homelessness and climate change. This is…
Mar 31, 2023
Mar 31, 2023
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Climate DiaryThis is to tell you all about the launch of a project on Mastodon that is very sympathetic with our Extreme Weather Stories collecting…
Feb 19, 2023
Feb 19, 2023
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70 years: Have we learned from the Great Flood?On the lookout
Jan 7, 2023
Jan 7, 2023
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Summer of Fire: Claire CansickThis is a guest piece from artist Claire Cansick. Most of the articles in this publication are textual, describing experiences of extreme…
Dec 2, 2022
Dec 2, 2022
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Phoebe Thomson
How is extreme weather taught in schools?The summer of 2022 saw an unprecedented series of heatwaves in the UK, with temperatures reaching 40.3°C on 19 July, a national record…
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
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Time for Power PartiesThis is published a bit before Earth Hour, at 8.30 pm on the 26th March.
Mar 26, 2022
Mar 26, 2022
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Rivers running through itWe’re officially in drought. East Anglia, where I am, received only 10% of its normal rainfall in July, and only two brief showers so far…
Aug 27, 2022
Aug 27, 2022
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Ethan King
Winter in TexasThis article is a collection of stories , experiences and respones related to the recent extreme cold weather storms and subsequent…
Apr 22, 2021
Apr 22, 2021
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Guide to climate conversationsWe in Climate Museum UK, wrote this guide to support conversations about climate and ecology in the lead-up to COP15 on Biodiversity in…
Sep 21, 2021
Sep 21, 2021
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Butterfly EffectThe planet is burning and drowning, and it’s reached the shores, doorsteps and livelihoods of the privileged north. We are in a time when…
Aug 7, 2021
Aug 7, 2021
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Voices on ClimateThe vision for this Extreme Weather Stories project (by us in Climate Museum UK) is that this is a multi-author platform, growing a…
Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021
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Fire in AmericaThis is a compilation of voices from the fire zone of California and the Pacific North West. Normally, these posts are written by guest…
Sep 12, 2020
Sep 12, 2020
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Deep Sea RisingThis is a guest post by Whabb Studio, a creative collective based in Wandsworth. On Twitter @whabbstudio
Jun 16, 2020
Jun 16, 2020
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Norman Townsend and the Climate and Ecological EmergencyThis contribution to our Extreme Weather Stories collection is by author Jessica Townsend. Jessica is a member of the Writers Rebel team…
May 24, 2020
May 24, 2020
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Flooding in WorcestershireThis Extreme Weather Story is written by Thiziri Boussaid (@thizbous), a young person living in Worcestershire. It was written in February…
May 24, 2020
May 24, 2020
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Why community organising is essential in post-flood commPhoto Wendy North, floods South Yorks in 2007
May 24, 2020
May 24, 2020
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Extreme Weather in EuropeThere has been so much extreme weather, with disastrous unprecedented impacts, everywhere in the world including in Europe, that it has…
Aug 5, 2021
Aug 5, 2021
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Climate FiresThis is a collection of tweets and links to capture a small glimpse of the wildfires around the world. Social media posts about these fires…
Aug 8, 2021
Aug 8, 2021