Global heating is likely to soar past internationally agreed limits, according to a Guardian survey of hundreds of leading climate experts, bringing catastrophic heatwaves, floods…
View More Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look likeTag: Flooding
Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties
Britain’s biggest building society has stopped granting mortgages on some properties where there is a high risk of flooding but said this affected only “a…
View More Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties‘Water everywhere’: Shropshire farmers race to salvage harvest after record rain
With his farm almost entirely surrounded by the banks of the River Severn in north Shropshire, Ed Tate is used to flooding on his land…
View More ‘Water everywhere’: Shropshire farmers race to salvage harvest after record rainFlooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from river
Farmers who have their entire cropping land submerged underwater have found they are ineligible for a government flooding hardship fund – because their farms are…
View More Flooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from riverWeather tracker: Flood fallout claims at least 20 lives in Brazil
Brazil was hit by devastating floods over the weekend that have so far claimed 20 lives in the resultant landslides and mudslides. There was heavy…
View More Weather tracker: Flood fallout claims at least 20 lives in BrazilNorfolk pub put at risk by ‘Britain’s most flooded road’
Dennis Birch estimates his pub loses about £3,000 a week when the road into the village of Welney is closed because of flooding – and…
View More Norfolk pub put at risk by ‘Britain’s most flooded road’‘It looked like we were at sea’: UK River and Rowing Museum faces up to climate threat
From the reconstructed riverside of The Wind in the Willows to an historic Georgian rowboat used in the inaugural Oxford-Cambridge race, the exhibits at the…
View More ‘It looked like we were at sea’: UK River and Rowing Museum faces up to climate threat‘Her waters break and the flood comes’: author behind new Jodie Comer film on motherhood in an apocalyptic London
At an unknown point in the near future, a woman is giving birth. As her contractions start, her home in London is flooded and, as…
View More ‘Her waters break and the flood comes’: author behind new Jodie Comer film on motherhood in an apocalyptic LondonConservative ‘failures’ have led to more sewage pollution, say water experts
Increased sewage pollution, urban flooding and water supply interruptions are the result of a decade of failures by the Conservative ministers, according to water experts…
View More Conservative ‘failures’ have led to more sewage pollution, say water expertsWarmer winters and more flooding will be the norm in the UK, scientists warn
Hydrologist Hannah Cloke has a straightforward description of the inundation that has just struck Britain. “Our decorations may have come down but the flood warning…
View More Warmer winters and more flooding will be the norm in the UK, scientists warn