Science

While forests across Europe burn, other parts of the continent are underwater.

No one from the government was available to do an interview, but we spoke to Philip Dunne, the Conservative MP who is chair of the Environmental Audit Committee. 

Pollution warnings have been put in place for almost 50 beaches in England and Wales, after untreated sewage was released into the sea in a number of places.

We spoke to Group Managing Officer David Diggins from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service – and asked him what the fire service had been dealing with in the last few days.

Europe is battling record temperatures – and experts have warned it could be in the midst of its worst drought for 500 years – with no sign of significant rainfall to come.

An official drought has been declared across eight areas of England – amid the driest summer for 50 years.

As another heatwave looms for much of the UK in the coming days, the Met Office has issued a four-day Amber extreme heat warning. 

We spoke to Rachel Kyte, a British academic who’s dean at The Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University. 

As some of the UK heads into another heatwave this week, with temperatures set to reach the mid 30s – as Europe is plunged into its worst drought for decades. 

England’s green and pleasant land has been turned yellow and parched by the summer heatwave, which is expected to fire up again in the next few days. 

The atmospheric call of the curlew is a well-loved sound that echoes across our landscape. 

This year’s climate has already smashed records, with temperatures last week topping 40 degrees Celsius.

We spoke to Professor Michael Wooldridge from Oxford University – a computer scientist who’s been an expert on AI for over 30 years.

Climate scientists are clear that it’s already too late to go back to the kind of weather we used to have, but can we stop things from getting a whole lot worse?

Our weather presenter, Liam Dutton, looks at all the records broken by today’s unprecedented heatwave in the UK – and explains why the climate crisis means this weather will become more commonplace.