Europe and northern hemisphere are warming at faster pace than the global average and ‘multiple climatic hazards’ are expected, says study Europe’s Atlantic-facing countries will suffer heavier rainfalls, greater flood risk, more severe storm damage and an increase in “multiple climatic hazards”, according to the most comprehensive study of Europe’s vulnerability to climate change yet. Temperatures in…

John Vidal At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them I f you want to see the world’s climate changing, fly over a tropical country. Thirty years ago, a wide belt of rainforest circled the…