Scotland is set to be hit by heavy rain and strong winds this week (beginning Mon 9 Sep), as the aftermath of ex-hurricane Dorian and Tropical Storm Gabrielle brings bad weather.
A typhoon blew across the Tokyo metropolitan area on Monday morning, killing one person and causing dozens of injuries, while disrupting rush-hour travel and knocking out power
For millennia, we’ve used our natural resources such as soil, air, water and timber for our economic benefit, mostly without recognising that by depleting them, we are endangering the very natural capital we rely on.
It’s been a particularly rainy summer this year, with Scotland having suffered flooding, landslides, power cuts and road and rail closures due to heavy rain in July and August.
The world is getting hotter. It is being suggested that July was globally the warmest month on record ever. In the UK, we had temperatures hitting 38.1C. Experts have said that climate change made these temperatures at least five times as likely to happen.
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