Weather

Blizzard conditions and high winds across large swathes of the country have brought more widespread disruption – with trains cancelled, roads blocked and hundreds of schools closed.

Extreme weather warnings have been issued for large parts of the UK – with blizzards, high winds and up to 40cm of snow expected in the worst hit places.

New Zealand has declared a national state of emergency after a cyclone hit the country, leaving thousands displaced and landslides destroying homes. 

A powerful Arctic storm is sweeping across much of the United States and Canada – with almost a million people left without power.

After one of the warmest autumns on record, a cold snap began to grip the UK last night. Temperatures plummeted to minus nine in rural Scotland and some English towns and cities saw temperatures drop well below zero. The freezing weather is set to continue at least into the early part of next week, putting…

The Egyptian setting for COP27 is a far cry from last year’s conference in Glasgow, and so is the mood – a looming global recession, rampant inflation and war in Europe pushing climate down the agenda at perhaps the worst possible time. 

Earlier Cathy spoke to Dawar Butt, an environmentalist and the co-founder of Climate Action Pakistan.  

Flooding in Pakistan has claimed more than a thousand lives since the monsoon began in June. 

The US ambassador to Somalia, Larry Andre, joins Krishnan from the capital Mogadishu.

We spoke to Pakistan’s minister for Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal.

Pakistan’s climate minister says a third of the country is now under water, after floods which have left more than a thousand people dead.

There are fears around energy supply and security this winter and an urgent need to be ready for what might come.

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

We spoke to the President of the National Farmers’ Union, Minette Batters.

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.