6 h. ago Most Americans who experienced severe winter weather see climate change at work, AP

A new poll finds that most U.S. adults who say severe cold was among the types of extreme weather they experienced in recent years cite climate change as a cause

Society

12 h. ago Summer arrives early and puts India’s staple wheat crop at risk

Key wheat-growing regions could see temperatures rise 6C above average

Events

27 h. ago Daylight saving time 2025: When do the clocks move forward in the US?

Some Americans may experience potential health effects when the clocks ‘spring forward’ on Sunday, March 9, 2025

Events

40 h. ago Satellite image captures three tropical cyclones spinning in the South Pacific at once

Tropical cyclones Rae, Seru and Alfred are churning as the region’s season reaches its peak Three tropical cyclones are churning in the South Pacific, an occurrence that scientists say is unusual.Tropical cyclones Rae, Seru and Alfred are all spinning as the region’s cyclone season, which starts in November and ends in April, reaches its peak. Continue reading...

Politics

50 h. ago Critical ocean circulation won’t entirely collapse because of climate crisis

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key engine of world’s weather patterns, is under threat of dangerous weakening

Events

58 h. ago Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – a tale of four women

The Nigerian-American author returns with an astute and moving exploration of female experience‘Novels had always felt to me truer than what was real,” declares a character in Dream Count, the highly anticipated new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is a statement echoed in the accompanying author’s note, which contends that the “point of art is to look at our world and be moved by it, and then to engage in a series of attempts at clearly seeing that world, interpreting it, questioning it”. Since the publication of her extraordinarily assured debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, in 2003, Adichie’s fiction has performed this task of seeing, interpreting and questioning to huge acclaim, garnering her major awards as well as a public profile far beyond most writers, whose work hasn’t been sampled by Beyoncé.In keeping with her superstar status, Dream Count is billed as “a publishing event 10 years in the making” and is perhaps the surest bet so far for this year’s Women’s prize. However, ...

Politics

4 d. ago UK weather: Snow maps show exactly where faces giant Arctic blizzards in just days

UK snow maps show a whiteout is set to hit the UK later this month, with flurries hammering several areas of the UK and freezing temperatures as winter refuses to leave

Politics

7 d. ago Shoppers 'bin' Vaseline for £4 Elizabeth Arden lip balm that's still £23 at Boots

"The only lip balm I buy now. Was always a Vaseline girl but it wouldn’t help my severely dry lips last winter, this product was the only thing that helped"

Economics

1 week ago Takeaway coffees to soar to £4 as climate change causes bean crop failures

The effects of climate-induced extreme weather have led to shortages in key Arabica and Robusta beans - with wholesale prices up by 27 per cent in a month.

Economics