UK winters are becoming significantly wetter mainly due to warming driven by human burning of fossil fuels releasing ...

Rising UK temperatures are increasing the likelihood of new plant pests establishing nationwide, threatening agriculture and forestry, the Met Office has ...

30 January 2025: Today the UK government published its national climate plan - known as a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) - and submitted it to the UN. The plan targets at least 81% ...

The United Kingdom is set to reduce climate aid for developing countries from £11.6bn to £9bn over the next five years, ...

Weather maps from WXCHARTS show snow falling across the UK from Friday, February 13 to Tuesday, February 17, with Scotland ...

Here is why the UK’s weather has been relentlessly wet in 2026 - A powerful jet stream and blocked weather fronts have trapped storms over the UK, bringing floods and record rainfall ...

With Cop30 now entering its final stretch in Brazil, many observers have been disappointed with the UK’s seemingly lacklustre showing at the world’s most important climate conference. First, there was ...

A "blocking" weather system lingering high above the UK has produced one of the driest, warmest and brightest starts to spring on record. April 2025 was the sunniest since records began in 1910. This ...

The UK submitted a plan to the United Nations to cut its CO2 emissions by at least 81% by 2035, just as the country’s status as a global climate leader comes under increased scrutiny. The government ...

Parts of the UK are bracing for up to 10 more days of wet weather, with flood warnings issued for more than 100 areas of the country.

I work at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford and receive public funding from the British Academy and the EU Horizon program to work on food and climate, wellbeing economies, and ...

Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford In the mid-2000s, soon after becoming Conservative leader, David Cameron hugged a husky ...