El Nino is set to intensify into one of the strongest events on record over the coming months, raising the risk of floods, drought and extreme heat well into 2027, experts have warned. “El Nino is being supersized before our eyes,” said Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general. “The science leaves no room for doubt:
This year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional data, and the Met Office said the season’s mean temperature was made 130 times more likely by the climate crisis. Record-breaking and back-to-back heatwaves have scorched much of Europe. In England, temperatures peaked at 38.1C (100.1F) at Kew Gardens in London on
Next year is forecast to be the UK’s hottest on record due to an “unprecedented” El Nino event, the Met Office has warned. This comes as the summer of 2026 is set to be the UK’s hottest since records began, with even average conditions in August meaning the record set last year will be
This summer could be the hottest, driest and deadliest in English history. Successive heatwaves have so far claimed almost 3,000 lives. Nearly three-quarters of England and all of Wales is in drought, while key reservoirs are parched. Across this brown and stickily unpleasant land, from Grimsby down to St Ives, hosepipe bans are in
Another heatwave could be on the horizon, the Met Office has predicted, as the UK reels from a month of unprecedented hot and dry conditions. Temperatures are expected to finally come down this week after the fifth heatwave brought the hottest day of the year so far, with provisional peaks of 38.1C. But the Met
Who else remembers the COVID briefings on TV given by governments around Europe at the height of the crisis? In the UK, the Prime Minister and top scientists stood behind lecterns, earnestly briefing the nation about the number of deaths, how quickly COVID was spreading and how we should be behaving to protect ourselves.
The three most important determinants of property price have always been location, location and location. No doorstep is more desirable than that with an outstanding school, hassle-free train link and leafy green space around the corner. But what is likely to end up the hottest summer on record has provided the strongest hint yet that
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record. Lies are a lot like gourds. They come in hundreds of different varieties, sizes, and bulbous, twisty
If you think the temperature uncomfortable today, let me take you to the last day of July 2052, the rays of the climbing sun reveal a city still sweltering in the residual heat of the day before. From the air, London resembles a colossal refugee camp. Streets, gardens and parks are teeming with tents
The ever-shifting, interconnected system of global air and ocean currents dictates the weather we experience daily. This year, however, scientists are warning that a particularly potent version of one of Earth's most infamous climate phenomena, El Niño, could dramatically alter these patterns. Climate scientist Daniel Swain recently posted on X (formerly Twitter), stating: "Whew. All