Why water is now the biggest threat to our island nation
Ahead of publication of the latest IPCC report, there’s no real argument about the major climate change threat to the UK. Water is set to become this country’s biggest problem.
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Record levels of air pollution have caused a surge in 999 calls, the London Ambulance Service says, with people reporting breathing difficulties, asthma and heart problems.
Much of the world remains unprepared for the mounting threats of the changing climate, a major international report warns.
Ahead of publication of the latest IPCC report, there’s no real argument about the major climate change threat to the UK. Water is set to become this country’s biggest problem.
This weekend will see spring warmth return to our shores, with warmer air feeding in from the continent.
French satellite images reveal 122 objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from the missing Malaysian airliner.
SSE, one of the ‘big six’ energy firms, announces a price freeze for all customers until 2016. Last year its chief executive said a freeze would “lead to unsustainable loss-making businesses”.
Cumulonimbus clouds and heavy showers are common during spring in the UK, but why?
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says a plane missing for more than two weeks with 239 people on board is assumed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean west of Perth with no survivors.
Often admired as they drift across the sky, clouds come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, with each type associated with a particular type of weather.
Despite the warmth and sunshine we’ve had so far this month, winter is going to bite back in the coming days and try to put spring back in its box.
This is George Osborne’s big chance. It is the first time he will hold up the budget box at a time of a robustly growing economy. It has been a four-year wait for this pleasure.
Waterstones has joined a campaign to stop labelling children’s books “for girls” or “for boys”. We should all get behind it.
The past week has seen a big area of high pressure sitting across the UK, blocking weather fronts from moving in and giving many of us a dry week – welcome news following the wettest winter on record.
As the world wide web celebrates its 25th birthday, I take a look at how the internet has changed since I first heard about it and how it has benefited the world of weather.
As the Scots vote on independence, one aspect of the country seems to already have gone its own way – its weather. So is the notion of dull drizzle and biting blizzards myth or reality?