The BBC’s Future Earth newsletter is always worth reading and I’d recommend subscribing. Here are the highlights of the most recent edition:

• Spring is coming earlier and autumn is ending later due to climate change, affecting plant and animal life cycles.
• The science of phenology, which studies seasonal changes’ effects on life cycles, is explained, with records dating back to 1736.
• Nature’s Calendar, a citizen science project, tracks these changes and needs more volunteers.
• Extreme weather events, their impact on coffee production and fishing, and answers reader questions about climate.
• Polar bears in the Arctic and efforts to reduce festive waste.