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Environment

91av 60 years ago: Exploding bombs to fix the climate

In 1958, when meteorologists were only just beginning to think about climate change, we ran a story on "a way in which man might drastically alter the weather"

Regulars

exoplanet

Space

Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in - and it's wild out there

Features

Sunbathers on a beach

Environment

Lengthy warm spells and heavy rainfall are on the rise in the UK

News

Coal power plant

Environment

Cutting aerosol pollution may lessen extreme weather even with warming

News

hurricane damage

Environment

There's little doubt we're to blame for hurricanes getting worse

Insight

Hurricane Florence, as seen from the International Space Station

Environment

Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation of 1.5 million residents ordered

News

Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

Environment

Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

News

California's worst wildfire in history is now the size of Los Angeles

Earth

California's worst wildfire in history is now the size of Los Angeles

News

The aftermath of Hurricane Maria

Humans

How many people did Hurricane Maria really kill in Puerto Rico?

News

Thousands dead or homeless after hydroelectric dam collapses in Laos

Environment

Thousands dead or homeless after hydroelectric dam collapses in Laos

The dam in Laos has collapsed, releasing large amounts of water and sweeping away houses and leaving more than 6000 homeless

News

Earth

China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

Insight

Earth

Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

News

Earth

Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe

News

Earth

Don't panic – homes in the UK won’t run out of gas for heating

Analysis