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Is acid rain is back on our 2025 apocalypse bingo card?

Tech August 4, 2025 By Josh Milton

A man shelters from the sun with a towel near the Colosseum during a heatwave across Italy, in Rome, Italy July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapne

What happens to your body in a heatwave after Tampa hits record-breaking 100 degrees?

US July 29, 2025 By Luke Alsford

Two women killed after rubber rings plunged down waterfall named

US July 23, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Portrait of a female cougar among fir branches

Child, 4, bitten by mountain lion while hiking with family at popular national park

US July 23, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Pollution outflow pipe into river

Five key takeaways from landmark report into UK's 'broken' water industry

UK July 21, 2025 By Craig Munro

(Left) Steve reed in an interview and (Right) a man looking at bills.

Don't expect water bills to stop rising after we overhaul sector, minister warns

UK July 20, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Aerial view of snow capped mountains and river leading to Olympic National Park, Washington State. (Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Plane crashes at Olympic National Park killing one and injuring two

US July 18, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

The Sycamore Gap Tree, also called Robin Hood Tree, is a sycamore tree standing next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland.

Why was the Sycamore Gap tree cut down?

UK July 16, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

Left: ladybird on a leaf Right: Swarm of ladybirds on a bollard

Here's why there are so many ladybirds in the UK right now

Tech July 14, 2025 By Jen Mills

U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott participate in a roundtable with first responders and local officials, at Hill Country Youth Center, in Kerrville, Texas, U.S., July 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Trump calls reporter 'evil' for asking if Texas flood warnings went out in time

US July 12, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Danger, risk and adversity are illustrated in this small sailboat facing a Tsunami.

'Doomsday' 100-foot mega tsunami likely to hit the US at any moment

US August 17, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Thoughts and prayers - the truth about politicians and natural disasters

US July 9, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Smoke rises from a wildfire near Marseille.

Wildfire 'at gates of Marseille' blocks out the sun and injures 110 people

World July 9, 2025 By Jasper King

Could devastating flash floods hit London too? Check your long term flood risk

Experts warn London is at risk of flash flooding: 'It doesn't bear thinking about'

Tech July 8, 2025 By Jen Mills

Low water levels at Baitings Reservoir reveal an ancient pack horse bridge in Ripponden, England

Hosepipe ban may be in place until winter after incredibly dry spring

UK July 8, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Workers attempt to pump out flood water on Hornsey Road caused by a burst water mains pipe in the Holloway district of London, UK, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. The UK's major utilities are facing criticism for the amount of??water that leaks out of pipes with about 2.4 billion liters lost through leaks every day. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Failing water firms forced to pay ten times as much compensation

Politics July 2, 2025 By Craig Munro

US President President Donald Trump (2L), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (L), and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (R) tour a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025. President Trump is visiting a migrant detention center in a reptile-infested Florida swamp dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Trump will attend the opening of the 5,000-bed facility -- located at an abandoned airfield in the Everglades wetlands -- part of his expansion of deportations of undocumented migrants, his spokeswoman said. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz', the airport turned Trump's migrant detention facility

US July 2, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

David Attenborough Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Chatham House

Let's give back to the environment on David Attenborough's 100th birthday

Letters July 1, 2025 By Letters Editor

Handout photo dated 07/07/23 taken with permission from the Facebook page of Jamie Burston Art of flying ants in Brighton on Friday. A swarm of flying ants a mile long was caught on a weather radar on the south coast - and more could be seen in the coming days. The Met Office picked up the ants on a rain radar on Friday as people took to social media reporting sightings saying it was "flying ant day". Issue date: Saturday July 8, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story ENVIRONMENT FlyingAnts. Photo credit should read: Jamie Burston Art/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

'They were in my hair and even went down my top': Flying ants are already swarming

UK July 1, 2025 By Jen Mills

Farmer buys 'UK's deadliest field' covered in plant fatal in even small amounts

Farmer buys 'UK's deadliest field' covered in plant fatal in even small amounts

UK June 29, 2025 By Sam Corbishley