We have built the system to shed much of the surplus rather than keep it. We allow a wet winter to rush away, then ration what remains through a dry summer.
- Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Reading
This new documentary series reveals how nature is fighting back against today’s extreme weather.
A 35°C heatwave really does “feel worse” in the UK than in many other countries.
The science will tell us what is likely to happen. The harder question is whether that knowledge reaches people in a form they can feel and act on.
After an exceptionally wet start to 2026, two climate scientists explain what’s going on.
Expertise can come from generations of farmers building up understanding of local weather patterns or Indigenous knowledge about forests and rivers.
The changing climate and growing population means England is facing a water crisis.
March 2023 was the wettest for 40 years in England and Wales.
A couple weeks of rain doesn’t make up for months of dry weather.
Scientists have unimaginably more powerful supercomputers than their predecessors.
Failures to respond adequately to the floods that hit Germany and Luxembourg in July 2021 must teach us how to prepare for future climate disasters.
I helped forecast disaster – but nothing prepared for me what happened next.
Climate change has profound, but often overlooked, consequences for human health.
Volatile, unstable air means that it is very tricky to work out exactly where each thunderstorm will be.
Massive cyclone that hit India and Bangladesh could have been so much worse.
A new study suggests raising dykes along a third of Europe’s coastline, but there are more cost-effective options.
Residents need the necessary support to adapt their homes and make collective decisions about flood prevention.
We asked some climate researchers what kept them hopeful in 2019.
Today’s three-day weather forecast is as accurate as a 24-hour forecast in the 1990s. But floods are still particularly tricky to pin down.
Here’s what we already do – and don’t – know about the link to climate change.
The UK has seen drought conditions since 2018, but the flooding of June 2019 shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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