By showing strong leadership and committing its fair share of new money to the Green Climate Fund to help children adapt to the effects of climate change, the UK Government can make sure children everywhere have enough nutritious food to eat, grow up to fulfil their potential and do not pay for our past mistakes with their futures.

The Environment Agency has warned Britons to prepare for future extreme weather after flooding hit parts of England and Wales one in every five days l...

From droughts to floods, Britain has been baked and battered with some seriously weird weather in 2012. Ushered in with snow, January lived up to ...

Major companies are increasingly concerned that they are at risk from climate change in the face of recent extreme weather events such as drought and ...

Truly sustainable economics and widespread prosperity can only be based on the viability of the land and its soil--not on increasingly unsustainable supplies of oil.

The poster image of drought - the caked brown dirt and withered crops - could easily be mistaken for some part of Africa had the caption not read 'USA'. The relatives of a colleague are on the frontline of this drought - said to be the worst in half a century.

Britain's rain misery is set to return on Thursday with downpours and strong winds lashing the country at the end of the week. After a dry period o...

More heavy rain and strong winds are expected to lash the country at the end of the week After a respite on Wednesday for many parts of Britain, th...

Hosepipe bans in place since April are to be lifted by three of the UK's biggest water companies. Thames Water, Anglian Water and Southern Water ar...

The UK's biggest water company has said it could lift its hosepipe ban sooner than expected after wet weather reduced the risk of drought. Thames W...

Temperatures across the UK have continued to soar as Britain basked in yet another day of glorious sunshine. In London forecasters said temperature...

Recent science analysis predicts that we are heading for between 4- 6°C of global warming. Such rapid change in our climate system will bring about profound and in some cases catastrophic damages. This is the stuff science fiction movies are made of: Storms and typhoons will be more frequent and will kill more lives and destroy more infrastructures.

To anyone in the UK who has looked out of the window at some point in the last six weeks, the fact many of us are still in 'drought' has been more tha...

Embattled gardening businesses were today granted a 28-day reprieve from the hosepipe ban. Water companies moved to relax the rules following the w...

South West England, the Midlands and parts of Yorkshire are no longer in drought following persistent and heavy rain in recent weeks, the Environment ...

Heavy rain which prompted severe weather warnings for parts of southern England and Wales is moving north, bringing new flood risks, forecasters said....

It turns out the Water Industry isn't really regulated in the public interest at all; but rather, for protecting a range of commercial vested interests. The concept of holistic catchment management, where capturing rainwater against dry spells should be common sense, is still not remotely the norm.

More localised flooding could hit parts of southern and eastern England and Wales as another band of heavy rain sweeps in, the Environment Agency has ...

Almost half of water companies have not been set stricter leakage targets before 2015 despite the country's worst drought in 25 years. Eight out of...

Despite draught blighting much of the UK, the recent heavy precipitation, which marked April as the wettest month since records began, has given some ...