How much rain might fall in your area and how high might temperatures climb? The BBC and the Met Office have looked at the UK's changing climate in detail to find out.
The UK is already experiencing…
Extreme heat can kill or cause long-term health problems – but for many unendurable temperatures are the new normal
The impact of extreme heat on the human body is not unlike what happens when a…
Iraq is one of the most climate-vulnerable places on Earth. In Baghdad, traffic police sergeant Sa’d Saddam Abdulhasan is responsible for one of the city’s busiest junctions. He keeps the city moving…
While Chile has been going through a drought for the past decade, July was particularly dry
Andres Couve, the science minister of Chile, has said addressing the climate crisis is a “national…
Violence and aggression increase as temperatures rise, according to new studies
If you find yourself more irritable as summer temperatures soar, there’s a reason for that: New research reveals that…
‘It’s a horrible combination – together, the wildfires and Covid-19 make us even sicker’
Wildfire smoke is linked to at least 19,000 additional cases of Covid-19 on the West Coast, and 700…
The hot, dry weather has been brought on by a weather phenomenon known as an anticyclone
An anticyclone named ‘Lucifer’ sweeping across Europe is set to bring further record-breaking temperatures…
Global land and sea temperatures were 1.67F above the average for July, making it the hottest month since records began 142 years ago.
July 2021 has earned the “unenviable distinction” of being…
Parts of the Mediterranean and central Europe have experienced extreme temperatures this summer, with wildfires causing devastation in both Turkey and Greece. The blaze on Evia, Greece’s second-…
Drawing people into cities could cut emissions and combat housing crises. But even progressives are hard to convince
In San Francisco’s Sunset District, rows and rows of pastel-colored, two-storey…
It was bound to happen. With temperatures rising year after year, largely as an effect of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, multiple parts of the globe have broken temperature records. Now, NOAA has…
As wildfires swept through the Italian island of Sicily, fueled by an extreme heatwave, officials in one city recorded on Wednesday what is believed to be the highest temperature ever recorded in…
Personalising the ‘silent killer’ hot spells could raise awareness in time to avert loss of life and property, say scientists
Spurred on by this summer’s record temperatures, Greek scientists have…
Thousands have been forced to evacuate after a blaze tore through the Plaine des Maures nature reserve
Hundreds of French firefighters battled for a third day on Wednesday to contain a raging…
For three days, the Massif des Maures in the south of France has burned, and along with it the Plaine des Maures nature reserve – one of the Mediterranean’s jewels of biodiversity, unique in all of…
Scientists say there’s something different this year as the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather
As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are…
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