Climate

Climate basics

Future Earth newsletter

Get exclusive insight on the latest climate and environment news from the BBC’s Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt, delivered to your inbox weekly.

Sign up now

Latest Updates

  1. image showing purple, white and yellow crocus blooming with sunny skies behind

  2. Steve Backshall is pictured smiling and wearing a light coloured T shirt

  3. An anonymous motorist, wearing black trousers and and blue striped shirt, is plugging a charger into the side of a silver vehicle.

  4. Three men carry drinking water above their heads in large blue plastic tanks along a dry sandbank of the Madeira River in northern Brazil

  5. Exposed reservoir bed, where grass is beginning to grow. There is only a narrow stream of water. In the background are green trees on either side, and a part blue, part cloudy sky.

  6. A woman fans herself during the June heatwave in Madrid

  7. A computer-generated image of the Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court Palace redesign features a range of colourful clusters of plants, with benches for visitors.

    8. Several wildfires are seen tearing through hillside at night in Turkey

    • Close-up image of a woman with a small, pink hand-held fan and a wide-brimmed straw-coloured sun hat.

    • The River Bann has water that's bright green and the aerial image shows how similar the green is to the fields surrounding the river.

    • Two people walking, one is drinking a cold drink and another is holding an umbrella, in Valencia, Spain

    • A silver car drives through water on the road in suburban London, creating a large splash.

    • Shot of a dazzling white blurred sun sitting high in the sky on a bright blue summer's day

    • The Sun rises behind the Shard skyscraper in London with an orange sky in the background

    • Tourists try to cool down during a visit to the Parthenon temple in Greece

    • Two people holding hands walk through a water feature spraying a fine mist

    • A young woman wearing a t shirt drinks from a bottle of water as she stands on a pavement with a red bus driving past behind

    • view overlooking Glastonbury festival with people sitting and enjoying the sunshine overlooking the site with the famous helter skelter

    • A woman wrapped in a green patterned sarong wades through knee-deep water to reach her home.

    • Crowds on the street watch life-sized cardboard animals being processed down the road

    • A hand holding fly larvae

    • A white jet with a blue stripe photographed from the ground against a blue sky with a few small fluffy clouds

    • A photo of people on a beach in Lyme Regis during the last heatwave

    • A recycling lorry used by Swindon Borough Council