Weather and climate news

New research reveals that wildfires are accelerating carbon loss from ecosystems, reducing the amount of emissions society can release, while still avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.

A period of high pressure is bringing a drier spell of weather for much of the UK, but further spells of strong winds and rain are likely at the weekend.

It has been the wettest September on record for some counties, according to provisional Met Office figures, though no national monthly records have been broken.

A new independent economic study has concluded that the Met Office will deliver benefits worth £56 billion to the UK economy over the next ten years.