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Air pollution from chemical plants made Hurricane Harvey worse

6 January 2021

Much of the devastating flooding caused by 2017’s Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas may have been triggered by aerosol pollution released from nearby petrochemical plants

2020 in review: Extreme weather seen around the world as climate warms

16 December 2020

Climate change is having a clear impact on the weather, as storms, floods and fires are all becoming more likely and records keep tumbling

Lightning is killing our forests – and it's only going to get worse

24 June 2020

Lightning sparks wildfires, causes pollution and destroys some of the planet’s most important trees. Climate change could see its incidence - and impact - increase

China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

9 May 2018

Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment

Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

17 April 2018

Plants in the UK are set to blaze into flower virtually simultaneously, because flowering has been delayed two weeks by the unusually cold weather

Extreme weather in US and Australia may be due to climate change

9 January 2018

The eastern US has shivered through freezing temperatures while Australia has sweltered in a colossal heatwave, and both events may be linked to climate change

How to clean up the dirty water Puerto Ricans are drinking

17 October 2017

Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria, many people on Puerto Rico are still without clean drinking water and have resorted to wells on a contaminated site

California’s wildfires powered by perfect storm of fire hazards

11 October 2017

Low humidity, parched vegetation and warm winds have led to fires that have killed at least 17, left over 150 people missing and destroyed over 2000 homes