Strong winds and heavy rain continue to batter the UK, causing severe disruption to Christmas travel plans across the country. Three people have died in the...
Three million properties in England are at risk of flash flooding, according to flood maps published by the Environment Agency on Thursday. An extra 2.4m are...
Thousands of people on the east coast of England have been forced to evacuate their homes, after what experts say could be the strongest tidal surge...
One person has died and thousands of homes across Scotland are without power as winds of more than 100mph hit the UK. Flooding is expected later...
An alert has been issued over the chance of heavy rain and wind in the South of England on Monday, which may cause serious disruption in...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR5 report, published two weeks ago, was scientists’ surest declaration yet of the certainty of human-caused climate change. It...
Ahead of the release of the fifth assessment report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change believers and deniers are debating whether...
Ten years ago today, the 17,000 residents of Faversham in Kent experienced the UK’s hottest ever temperatures: a whopping 38.5C (101.3F). The day before, the villagers...
As many as 760 people are believed to have died over the last nine days because of the British heatwave, according to research conducted for the Times....
London and parts of the south of England have been warned about serious rising temperatures by the Met Office, as the British heatwave continues. Some southern...
Scientists at the Met Office have suggested that the primary cause of unusual British weather in the last two years is warming in the Atlantic and...
Leading scientists from the Met Office are meeting on Tuesday to discuss the unusual weather experienced by the UK over the past two years, and to...
On May 4, global carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million (ppm). It has been three million years since our air has been...
Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith has told the BBC that the UK will have to adapt to floods and droughts and be prepared to face more extreme...
On the night of January 31 1953, a high spring tide and a cyclonic windstorm created a storm surge that raised sea levels by 5.6 metres...