Nature and Environment
Thousands of protesters gathered across Australia calling for action to tackle climate change.
Roll up folks, it's your last chance to get a tan.
At least five people have died because of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said, as the massive storm pounded the Caribbean nation. The hurricane is expected to advance on the US coast.
“We are in the midst of a historic tragedy," Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said of the Category 4 storm.
Hurricane Dorian became the strongest storm in modern records to hit the northwestern Bahamas and is expected to pound the islands with up to two days of torrential rain, high waves and damaging winds as parts of Florida evacuated before it took aim at the U.S. mainland.The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Dorian made landfall on Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands as a Category 5 storm on Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour (295 km per hour) and gusts of more than 220 mph (354 kph).
Officials warned "devastating conditions" are expected to make landfall imminently.
A thinktank has warned of the negative impact increased water scarcity could have on the Northern Powerhouse project as a whole
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Manhattan on Wednesday after a two-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a zero-emissions yacht. She is in the United States to attend the U.N. Climate Action summit next month and hopes to attend the COP25 in Santiago, Chile, in December. Thunberg said she was going to focus on "spreading awareness" instead of trying to convince US President Donald Trump about climate change.
The teenage climate change activist is in New York to attend the UN climate summit in September.
This weekend was the hottest late August bank holiday the UK has ever seen.