Extreme weather

Climate crisis and energy costs fuel £600 rise in UK household food bill, analysis finds
Extreme weather contributing one-third of all food price inflation with worse to come in 2024, warn climate researchers
Sarah Butler
27, Nov, 2023 @6:00 AM

‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes
In August, wildfires in Evros killed a group of people, including children, passing along a well-trodden migration route. Locals and politicians made the victims scapegoats for the disaster
Words by Katy Fallon and Giorgos Christides. Photographs by Alexandros Avramidis
23, Nov, 2023 @10:00 AM

Madagascan heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without human-caused global heating
Study finds impact of heat on millions of people went unrecorded, highlighting limitations many African countries face
Damian Carrington Environment editor
23, Nov, 2023 @6:00 AM

Lightning superbolt hotspots have one thing in common, study finds
Phenomenon most frequent in north-east Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Altiplano plateau across Peru and Bolivia
Jeremy Plester
23, Nov, 2023 @6:00 AM

National Trust calls on UK government to improve climate resilience
‘Urgent and unswerving attention’ required to deal with rising temperatures and extreme weather
Steven Morris
20, Nov, 2023 @5:00 AM

Centrelink urged to suspend mutual obligations during periods of extreme heat
Federal MPs including Amanda Rishworth asked to consider halt to the obligations during heatwaves
Cait Kelly
19, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM

Weather tracker: Anchorage on course for its snowiest November ever
Alaska’s largest city breaks several daily snowfall records, with snowstorms prompting state of emergency
Lauren Herdman and Morgan Thomas (Metdesk)
17, Nov, 2023 @8:50 AM

As a student, I’m striking for climate action. If you’re worried or angry about the climate crisis, join us | Jeremy Phu Howard
I used to believe I had no real say in what our government did. But eventually I realised that that simply wasn’t true
Jeremy Phu Howard
16, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM

At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency
Diseases will spread faster and further, and kill more people, as the effects of record heat, floods, drought and storms escalates
Joan van Dyk
16, Nov, 2023 @6:00 AM

State of emergency declared in parts of France after record rainfall
Floods force evacuation of homes, schools and town halls in Calais region and in the Alps
Kim Willsher in Paris
15, Nov, 2023 @11:19 AM

Hiker drank from puddle and ate tadpoles to survive Texas desert ordeal
Marketing executive Jeff Hahn, 59, credits ‘three miracles’ for his survival in extreme heat in Big Bend Ranch state park
Ramon Antonio Vargas
15, Nov, 2023 @11:00 AM

Climate-heating gases reach record highs, UN reports
World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning
Damian Carrington Environment editor
15, Nov, 2023 @10:00 AM
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