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Britain’s Ministry of Silly Walks Jumps Off a Climate Cliff

Yet again the Ministers and civil servants in charge of Britain’s climate and energy policy have shown their abject failure to show any concept of climate leadership or even joined up thinking.

As Japan Begins Olympic Countdown, it Swelters in 41.1 Degrees Heat

Tomorrow marks the two-year countdown to the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. But Japanese officials are not celebrating. They are seriously concerned. The country – like many parts of the world - is in the middle of an intense brutal heat-wave.

As the US Wakes up to Climate Change, the Media Lags Behind

As more and more Americans link extreme weather to climate change, its time the media did so too

Major weather extremes in 2016 due to “human influence on climate”

The report "makes clear that we're experiencing new weather, because we've made a new climate.”

After Harvey Comes “Life Threatening” Hurricane Irma

After Superstorm Harvey comes Hurricane Irma, which surged into a dangerous Category Four storm yesterday, with winds of up to 150 miles an hour.

1,200 Dead; Up to 41 Million Affected in Asian Flooding

As much of the North American media focuses on the ongoing unprecedented flooding and relief efforts in Texas and now potentially Louisiana, another tragedy is unfolding, which is going largely unreported, in Asia.

Climate Change: Deadly Heatwaves Will Become More Common

Nearly half the world’s population will suffer periods of deadly heat by the end of the century, even if we radically start to cut greenhouse gas emissions. This will rise to nearly 75 per cent if we do nothing.

Louisiana Floods: A “classic signal of climate change”

The US state of Louisiana was under a state of emergency over the weekend with at least six people dead and 20,000 people rescued due to an "historic" flooding event affecting the state for the previous few days.

Hottest Ever June is 14th Consecutive Month That Records Have Been Broken

As Washington and London swelter in the mid-Summer heat, it has been confirmed that our record breaking weather continues with June being the hottest ever on record.