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Bananas, rice, tea, coffee and sugar among £8bn of UK food imports from countries struggling to cope with increasingly extreme weather, ECIU analysis finds

Study finds impact of heat on millions of people went unrecorded, highlighting limitations many African countries face

Substantial numbers of marine heatwaves are hidden globally below the sea surface, according to analyses of ocean temperature data.

More than a hundred million people are thought to have been affected by the extreme weather.

A synthesis of 443 studies across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems reveals differences in the responses of non-native and native animal species to heatwaves, cold spells, storms, floods and droughts, and prompts discussion of how such ex ...

International funding to shield people from heatwaves, floods and droughts only 5-10% of what is needed, report finds

Extreme weather events and their consequential impacts have been a key feature of the climate in recent years in many parts of the world, with many partly attributed to ongoing global-scale warming. The past year, 2022, has been no exception, with fu ...

Experts say extreme weather events are the most probable cause of food shortages and subsequent distribution issues

Drought and heatwave has killed fish in rivers as Indigenous umbrella group Apiam says villagers have no water, food or medicine

Analysis shows at least $2.8tn in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heatwaves

Temperatures will hover between 24-25C during an unseasonal hot start to October

Firefighters backed by water-dropping helicopters battle blaze that broke out in area of Spanish Canary island ravaged by fire in August

The warm weather is unseasonable for October

Other pupils have received detentions for taking blazers off during a heatwave and not having a clear pencil case

After experiencing a record-breaking number of ‘extremely hot’ days in summer, the unusually high temperatures are due to continue

‘We are in this run of very, very warm weather which hasn’t been seen in many, many years’

Heat takes toll on Sydney marathon runners as 26 hospitalised and about 40 treated for heat exhaustion

Four people harvesting grapes suspected dead due to unusually high outdoor temperatures