extreme weather
'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
'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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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: Six positive news stories from 2019
Academics highlight the positive climate stories of 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Climate crisis blamed as temperature records broken in three nations
New maximums set in Belgium, Germany and Netherlands, as citizens swelter across Europe
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
Climate change made European heatwave at least five times likelier
Searing heat shows crisis is 'here and now', say scientists, and worse than predicted
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