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'Real risk to wellbeing': UK summer temperatures set to rise faster than global average, study finds
'Real risk to wellbeing': UK summer temperatures set to rise faster than global average, study finds

Research mapping 40 years of future global climate trends has concluded that temperatures in the UK are set to increase faster than other parts of the world

  • Climate change
  • 06 January 2021
'Disastrous extremes': Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020 weather disasters
'Disastrous extremes': Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020 weather disasters

Most costly floods, windstorms, tropical cyclones and fires in 2020 killed thousands of people across the globe and displaced millions, charity finds

  • Climate change
  • 29 December 2020
Wet winter warning: Labour calls for flood preparedness taskforce
Wet winter warning: Labour calls for flood preparedness taskforce

Opposition accuses government of 'letting down flood-hit communities yet again' as new analysis suggests flood recovery grants have not been fully distributed

  • Risk
  • 16 December 2020
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes

New analysis summarising latest thinking on climate attribution, reveals increasingly clear evidence climate change is leading to increased extreme weather risks

  • Climate change
  • 11 December 2020
McCain invests £25m in bolstering potato farmers' climate resilience
McCain invests £25m in bolstering potato farmers' climate resilience

Following two of the worst harvests in decades, the new McCain Potato Farmer Pledge campaign aims to help British farmers adapt to increasingly erratic weather

  • Supply chain
  • 12 August 2020
Does the UK need a Royal Commission to assess environmental risk?
Does the UK need a Royal Commission to assess environmental risk?

Major new report from IPPR warns the UK is 'acutely vulnerable' to escalating environmental breakdown

  • Climate change
  • 24 June 2020
Reach for the skies
Reach for the skies

The Arctic is sweltering and emissions are climbing again, but the technologies we need to avert catastrophe exist, we just need to deploy them

  • 24 June 2020
Study: Worst case climate scenarios point to 'near unlivable' heat for one-third of humans by 2070
Study: Worst case climate scenarios point to 'near unlivable' heat for one-third of humans by 2070

Vast swathes of the Tropics could end up as hot as the Sahara within 50 years unless emissions fall sharply, report warns

  • Climate change
  • 05 May 2020
Flood risk and insurance cost fears highlighted for 1.8 million UK residents
Flood risk and insurance cost fears highlighted for 1.8 million UK residents

Insurance industry warns of increased premiums as flood risk grows due to climate change.

  • Risk
  • 05 February 2020
Climate threats sweep the board in 2020 global risk ranking
Climate threats sweep the board in 2020 global risk ranking

For the first time top five long-term risks facing world are environment and climate related, latest report from World Economic Forum reveals

  • Investment
  • 15 January 2020
Noah's Rainbow - Raising children in an age of climate crisis
Noah's Rainbow - Raising children in an age of climate crisis

On crying at the climate crisis, the start of a decade of consequences, and the stark difference between ghosts and ancestors

  • Climate change
  • 09 January 2020
Climate change: Six positive news stories from 2019
Climate change: Six positive news stories from 2019

Academics highlight the positive climate stories of 2019

  • Science
  • 06 January 2020
Oxfam: Every two seconds climate change forces a person from their home
Oxfam: Every two seconds climate change forces a person from their home

New research lays bare scale of disruption already underway as a result of the climate crisis

  • Science
  • 02 December 2019
COP25: Negotiators gather in Madrid for crunch climate talks
COP25: Negotiators gather in Madrid for crunch climate talks

Nations will attempt to agree the last of the rules governing the Paris Agreement before the crucial climate treaty enters force next year

  • Politics
  • 02 December 2019
Roman ruins, Saxon forts, and medieval castles all face destruction from climate change
Roman ruins, Saxon forts, and medieval castles all face destruction from climate change

Some of the UK's most famous historical landscapes could be damaged through sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and flooding, new research warns

  • Climate change
  • 27 September 2019
Heatwaves don't have to spell game over for nuclear
Heatwaves don't have to spell game over for nuclear

There are ways to manage curtailment of nuclear power during a heatwave, argues Energy for Humanity's Kirsty Gogan

  • Nuclear
  • 06 September 2019
Study: Climate change threatens global banana shortage
Study: Climate change threatens global banana shortage

Largest banana-producing nations set to suffer 'significant declines' in yields as a result of a warming world

  • Supply chain
  • 02 September 2019
NIC chief: New Cabinet must offer more than 'vague promises' for green infrastructure
NIC chief: New Cabinet must offer more than 'vague promises' for green infrastructure

Sir John Armitt calls for government to commit to spending 1.2 per cent of GDP every year on future-proofing UK infrastructure

  • Policy
  • 08 August 2019
Hotter, wetter, sunnier: UK's 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2002
Hotter, wetter, sunnier: UK's 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2002

Met Office's annual report on state of UK climate also says snowy days have become rarer

  • Climate change
  • 31 July 2019
2,000 years of records show it's getting hotter, faster
2,000 years of records show it's getting hotter, faster

The clearest picture yet of the past 2,000 years of global temperatures has shown warming in the last 50-odd years is unprecedented in the last two millennia

  • Science
  • 26 July 2019
Climate crisis blamed as temperature records broken in three nations
Climate crisis blamed as temperature records broken in three nations

New maximums set in Belgium, Germany and Netherlands, as citizens swelter across Europe

  • Climate change
  • 25 July 2019
OBR: Climate change could inflict 'sudden shocks' and 'slower-building pressures' on public purse
OBR: Climate change could inflict 'sudden shocks' and 'slower-building pressures' on public purse

If global efforts to curb climate change fail the risks posed by migration, extreme weather and conflict will be 'severe' for UK economy, Office for Budget Responsibility warns

  • Risk
  • 18 July 2019
 Climate change made European heatwave at least five times likelier
Climate change made European heatwave at least five times likelier

Searing heat shows crisis is 'here and now', say scientists, and worse than predicted

  • Climate change
  • 02 July 2019
We must fight for a future for our children
We must fight for a future for our children

The children of today will live until the end of the century - they will know whether we have succeeded in the climate fight, says WWF's Gareth Redmond-King

  • Climate change
  • 11 June 2019
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