13 h. ago When heavy rainfall threatens flooding, you can protect yourself. Here's how

Extreme weather is dangerous weather, and that’s particularly true for the heavy rainfall events that experts say are becoming more frequent with climate change

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5 d. ago 'Extremely dangerous predator' who told girl 'I'll pretend to be your granddad in McDonald's' back behind bars

Harry Croft has been banned from engaging in online chat for the rest of his life

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6 d. ago ‘Extremely dangerous misfit’ jailed for minimum of 39 years for beach attack

Nasen Saadi attacked Amie Gray and Leanne Miles on Bournemouth beach because of his ‘grievance towards women’.

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8 d. ago Baby monitor helps catch out 'extremely dangerous' rapist as his sick plot unravels

Connor Pennell, 28, of Skelmersdale, was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years at Bolton Crown Court on Tuesday after being found guilty of a brutal catalogue of abuse

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8 d. ago 'Extremely dangerous' rapist was caught after footage of him attacking victim was secretly filmed on a baby monitor

Connor Pennell was finally caught after officers found the horrifying footage which had been safed unto his phone.

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2 w. ago Inside ‘extremely dangerous’ fake dentist office where woman allegedly performed extractions on patients

Police have shared footage of inside an “extremely dangerous” fake dentist office where a woman is alleged to have performed extractions and root canals on patients.

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3 w. ago The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trialsSome years ago in the pages of the Guardian, we sounded the alarm about the increasing attention being paid to solar geoengineering – a barking mad scheme to cancel global heating by putting pollutants in the atmosphere that dim the sun by reflecting some sunlight back to space.In one widely touted proposition, fleets of aircraft would continually inject sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere, simulating the effects of a massive array of volcanoes erupting continuously. In essence, we have broken the climate by releasing gigatonnes of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide, and solar geoengineering proposes to “fix” it by breaking a very different part of the climate system.Raymond T Pierrehumbert FRS is professor of planetary physics at the University of Oxford. He is an author of the 2015 US National Academy of Sciences report on climate interventionMichael E Mann F...

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3 w. ago The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trialsSome years ago in the pages of the Guardian, we sounded the alarm about the increasing attention being paid to solar geoengineering – a barking mad scheme to cancel global heating by putting pollutants in the atmosphere that dim the sun by reflecting some sunlight back to space.In one widely touted proposition, fleets of aircraft would continually inject sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere, simulating the effects of a massive array of volcanoes erupting continuously. In essence, we have broken the climate by releasing gigatonnes of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide, and solar geoengineering proposes to “fix” it by breaking a very different part of the climate system.Raymond T Pierrehumbert FRS is professor of planetary physics at the University of Oxford. He is an author of the 2015 US National Academy of Sciences report on climate interventionMichael E Mann F...

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3 w. ago What is ‘danger tourism’? Why tourists take extreme risks for travel experiences

Tourists have often sparked criticism when travelling to war zones or ‘dangerous’ countries. Amelia Neath explores the impact of this type of travel and how it differs from other types of tourism where travellers seek thrills

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