Sandwatch is a climate change and coastal monitoring programme which encourages the development of sustainable approaches to address beach environment challenges, while also stimulating local climate change adaptation measures.

UNESCO: Small Island Developing States

Previous work has offered income, education, low levels of agricultural labour (which is replaced by more mentally stimulating jobs), climate (the challenge of surviving cold weather might provoke the evolution of intelligence) and even distance from humanity's African homeland (novel environments could encourage greater intelligence) as explanations for national differences in IQ.

ECONOMIST: Disease and intelligence

Heightened methane emission from wetlands and permafrost has regularly been touted as a potential amplifying factor in climate change, with warmer weather stimulating their release and so producing further warming.

BBC: Modest hopes for climate summit, as gas levels rise