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Farmers warn food shortages are just 10 days away – the signs suggest they’ve already arrived As farmers sound the alarm about a growing food crisis, experts say that Britain's food insecurity needs to be treated as a growing national security risk. As climate change and conflict affect fragile supply chains, the warnings are becoming impossible to ignore, writes disaster planner Lucy Easthope

European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life

The climate and nature crisis threatens all aspects of British life, from national security to the food supply. Despite the scale of the risks now facing the UK, there has been no comprehensive national emergency briefing delivered to the public by the Government.

Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress

Scientists know how to alter our atmosphere to try and fix climate change, but doing so could bring other potential unintended impacts

Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says

Exclusive: Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying. The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said. The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.

Analysis of six extreme heatwaves found when temperature and humidity were accounted for, all were potentially deadly for older people

When James Prescott Joule lent his name to a unit of energy, he could not have foreseen today’s alarming calculations

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points