The Latest Breaking News on Climate change

Up to 9in of snow expected in Arkansas and Tennessee as climate crisis leads to more frequent extreme weather cases

Last year set a record for high temperatures across the mainland United States, with the nation also pummeled by a barrage of tornadoes and destructive hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a report Friday.

Around the globe, Associated Press photographers in 2024 documented what scientists on Friday said was the hottest year on record, the latest in a long string of heat milestones that have been shattered in recent years as the burning of gas, coal and oil accelerate global warming.

New research reveals the Local Authority areas with the worst – and the best – roads

The last weather warning expired at midday on Friday.

MORE than 160,000 Scots are facing a heating crisis due to delays in rolling out smart meters...

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the period before widespread industralisation. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single…

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Friday night is expected to be coldest of winter across UK, with capital seeing lows of -6C

The year 2024 was the hottest ever recorded and the first full year in which global temperatures surpassed 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists said on Friday.

TEMPERATURES are to continue to fall over the coming days, with the mercury potentially reaching as low as -20C in parts of Scotland...