The Latest Breaking News on Climate change

Queensland firefighters are on high alert with heatwave conditions and severe thunderstorms, including hail and damaging winds, predicted to hit some parts.

More people are getting sick and dying from extreme heat, drought and other climate impacts, an international team of experts warned on Wednesday.

Inaction on the climate crisis is ‘costing lives and livelihoods’ due to extreme heat, food insecurity and infectious diseases, say scientists

We are still getting used to a “new normal” of devastating summer heatwaves. But the effects of a warming climate are being felt throughout the year, and recent autumn months have been further off the charts than ever.

Countries’ climate action plans are still far behind what’s needed to curb human-caused warming and limit the devastating effects of extreme heat, storms and droughts, but some nations have taken marginal steps toward slashing emissions, a United Nations analysis of national plans found Tuesday

A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States

Research shows global heating creates ‘whiplash effect’ of erratic extremes – often in poorest countries

Storm Debi is expected to clear away from the UK to the east in the early hours of Tuesday, but ‘wet and windy weather’ should linger.

Projecting when and how fast the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will lose mass due to current and future global ocean warming – and the likely impact on sea level rise and coastal communities – is a priority for climate science.

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The Met Office’s amber warning for wind remains in place on Monday afternoon for North West England.