The changing weather is having an impact on everything from hibernating dormice to caterpillars and calves.
It may only just have been the second warmest year on record (with the mean UK temperature a mere 0.06˚C cooler than 2022 at 9.97˚C), but 2023 was another indicator of an alarming trend — climate change is ‘starting to bite’. According to the Met Office, the five warmest years in the UK since 1884 include 2020, 2022 and 2023, and the 10 warmest years…
