Weather

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. 

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.

A hosepipe ban is being introduced in parts of Devon and Cornwall for the first time in a quarter of a century, as some water companies said their reservoirs were only half full, while demand has surged during the weeks of drought. 

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.