Extreme weather

Victims survey the wreckage after a flood in Germany, climate events like this will be more common thanks to global heating

Vital indicators of climate change broke all previous records in 2021

Pramilitary police work to evacuate people trapped in a flooded area in Suizhou in central China's Hubei Province, August 2021.

Everyone will be warned of dangerous floods and storms within 5 years

Dramatic floods have occurred across several parts of Australia

Watch this shocking footage of Australia’s worst flood on record

A sign in Death Valley National Park, California

Why does California want to name its heatwaves?

Workers carry out repair work on an overhead line and a railway in Maarssen on February 19, 2022, after Storm Eunice hit northern Europe.

Storm Franklin: How do scientists predict extreme weather?

Global average temperatures have changed over the years.

Extreme weather explained: What actually is climate change?

A wildfire rages through a forest

Extreme heat turns people into green voters, study finds

09/02/2022

Is a coffee shortage inevitable as climate change gets worse?

Is a coffee shortage inevitable as climate change gets worse?

03/02/2022

Snow in the desert.

Why is it snowing in the Sahara Desert?

23/01/2022

Cairo's stray cats are feeling the effects of climate change

This eco-artist builds cat shelters out of recycled car tyres

19/01/2022

From the biodiversity crisis to Biden's eco promises: what to watch out for in 2022.

These are the six major environmental stories to follow in 2022

12/01/2022

A Chinese military band arrives for celebrations in Beijing in July.

China is now controlling the weather. What’s the environmental cost?

09/12/2021

Volunteers came to the rescue of those stranded in British Columbia.

How one couple found Hope during the fatal Canadian storm

19/11/2021

Tea harvesting staff collect tea leaves on a plantation in Jiayi, Taiwan, May 7, 2021.

In pictures: Taiwanese tea farmers battling climate-fuelled drought

22/10/2021

2 million people have died as a result of extreme weather in the last 50 years.

Weather disasters have killed 2 million in the last 50 years, says UN

01/09/2021

Should we all be offered siestas during hot weather?

Why is this charity offering staff extra long lunch breaks?

31/08/2021

Syracuse, Sicily, which recorded the hottest temperature in European history yesterday.

Sicily's heat is a warning to us all: What life is like here right now

12/08/2021

These are the 10 most unconventional energy sources we could be using in the near future

From poo to jellyfish: 10 unconventional 'clean' energy sources

06/08/2021

Risk of wildfires increases in the UK

Wildfire risk increases in the UK due to climate change, says study

24/03/2021