Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds.
Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune.
RHS unveils plans to future-proof for drought.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has unveiled emergency plans to protect its gardens from future water shortages after severe drought conditions last year.
Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third.
Choosing the “least expensive” healthy food options could cut dietary emissions by one-third, according to a recent study.
State of the climate: 2025 in top-three hottest years on record as ocean heat surges.
The year 2025 was in the top-three warmest years on record, with average surface temperatures reaching around 1.44C above pre-industrial levels across eight independent datasets.
Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires.
Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago - a crisis fuelled by climate change.
‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows.
Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis.
A deadly new wave of 'whiplash weather' is set to hit our biggest cities. Are we ready?
Weather patterns are see-sawing from one extreme to another faster and more frequently than ever before. And the phenomenon is coming to places you wouldn’t expect.
Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown
New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies.
Cyclones, floods and wildfires among 2025’s costliest climate-related disasters.
Christian Aid annual report’s top 10 disasters amounted to more than $120bn in insured losses
How extreme weather is making plastic pollution more mobile, more persistent and more hazardous.
The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants,” according to a new study, which calls for urgent action.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable.
Spain to open network of climate shelters
Spain is to set up a national network of climate shelters in public buildings to offer people refuge from intense heat before next summer, its prime minister has announced.
How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025.
Greenland is closing in on three decades of continuous annual ice loss, with 1995-96 being the last year in which the giant ice sheet grew in size. With another melt season over, Greenland lost 105bn tonnes of ice in 2024-25.
Mount Kenya glaciers to vanish by 2030
Mount Kenya, home to some of Africa's last remaining glaciers, is on the brink of a dramatic transformation: its ice could vanish entirely by 2030, said environmentalist Lewis Pugh after summiting Kenya's highest peak.
Vulnerable people most at risk from extreme rainfall.
An assessment of death rates in India’s coastal megacity of
Mumbai reveals the impact of rain, high tides and flooding.
Climate change will probably exacerbate the effects.

