Liam Dutton
Warming up into next week – is summer weather finally on the way?
The first widespread warmth of summer is expected into next week, following a chilly start to June.
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Liam Dutton
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Are parties taking climate change seriously in the election?
It’s a time when the climate is facing ever increasing chaos. Extreme weather, record heat waves, but instead of becoming a high profile election issue, it’s barely featured in the campaign at all.
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Liam Dutton
June starts cool – will it warm up anytime soon?
The first 10 days of June have been cooler than average for most of us. Are there any signs of summer-like warmth?
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Liam Dutton
Earth has 12th consecutive month with record-high temperatures – why this matters
Earth has just had its 12th consecutive month with record-high temperatures, according to Copernicus. What does this mean for our weather?
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Liam Dutton
UK has warmest spring and May on record. What does summer hold?
The UK has just had its warmest spring and May on record, according to the Met Office. What does the forecast for June and summer hold?
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Local Elections Debate: voters question five main parties
Local Elections Debate: voters question five main parties
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FactCheck: what we know about the Libyan flood and climate change
Research is still underway to establish the exact role climate change could have played in Storm Daniel and the Libya flood.
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Sunak claims North Sea gas ‘four times’ less polluting than imports
On the day he announced hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licenses prime minister Rishi Sunak told reporters that producing natural gas in the UK is “better for the climate” than importing it from abroad. He said that’s because it’s “far better to have it here at home rather than shipping it here…
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Would new North Sea oil and gas make Britain more energy independent?
The government will grant hundreds of new licences to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The initial decision was announced last year, but Mr Sunak reiterated the plan this week alongside “millions of pounds” for so-called “carbon capture and storage” technology — which the government says would help reduce…
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I dated AI and met the men marrying chatbots
What’s it like to get an AI girlfriend, and why are millions of people around the world doing it?
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FactCheck: were the Greek wildfires caused by climate change?
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…
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Rhodes fires: flights cancelled as thousands of tourists and residents evacuated on Greek island
It’s an island inferno. As flames continue to lick coastal tourist areas after ripping through the mountainous interior of Rhodes, the Greek authorities say they’re dealing with the country’s biggest fire evacuation ever. Nineteen thousand people have been rescued from villages and hotels – three thousand of those picked up in boats from the beaches…
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What’s going on with the world’s oceans – and what’s a marine heatwave?
The world’s oceans have been heating to unprecedented levels in recent months, with some scientists debating whether the climate is changing beyond expectation. In the UK, June is now set to be the hottest on record. Similar records have been tumbling elsewhere and Antarctic ice has receded to its lowest point ever. The Met Office…
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‘This is an emergency’ – Chris van Tulleken on how our diet is killing us
Chris van Tulleken’s latest book, ‘Ultra-Processed People’, explores how ultra-processed food is designed to fuel addiction and is creating an epidemic of diet-related disease.
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Sussex plans to restore kelp forests to fight climate change
It’s brown, smelly and elusive and it plays a key role in the fight against climate change. Giant
