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Storm Barry is heading towards New Orleans – how big is the risk?

12 July 2019

Almost 14 years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces disaster again. Massive rainfall and a storm surge from Storm Barry pose twin threats to the city

Rare footage of a beaver gnawing through a tree in North Yorkshire

20 June 2019

Rare footage shows a Eurasian beaver in North Yorkshire gnawing through a tree trunk and felling the tree in just 15 minutes

Some UK coastal communities may have to move because of climate change

9 May 2019

Some coastal communities around the UK may have to eventually be moved because of the scale of flooding that climate change threatens to bring

A man on the remains of a bridge in Zimbabwe

Images show the devastation of Cyclone Idai

27 March 2019

Cyclone Idai has devastated parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi with winds reaching 170 kilometres per hour

Rescue efforts underway after more than 130 die in Japan floods

11 July 2018

Rescuers are searching for more than 50 unaccounted for people in and around the hardest hit Hiroshima area.

More than 100 dead as floods and landslides devastate south-west Japan

9 July 2018

Authorities warned that landslides could strike even after rain subsides as the calamity shaped up to be potentially the worst in decades

Thai rescue: How to help the boys survive months in a cave

3 July 2018

The twelve boys stranded in a Thai cave may now need to stay there for months, making strategies to protect their mental health and circadian rhythms crucial

Parts of San Francisco are sinking faster than the sea is rising

7 March 2018

Rising seas are already boosting the flood risk in places like San Francisco, but the problem is even worse than that because land is also subsiding

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

19 December 2017

Anglo-Saxon England was unusually warm and stormy. Place names coined then could hold clues to how the weather will get wetter and wilder as the climate changes