The UK will be in drought until at least October. But there’s no such thing as a ‘new normal’ on a planet hurtling past 1.5C, on the way to 3C by 2050 & 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Without unprecedented societal change, we are in the beginning stages of a fairly rapid end.

Major incident declared after large wildfire breaks out - as UK warned of 'new normal' after drought declaredFirefighters in Suffolk were battling the biggest wildfire of Wednesday, but other crews were kept busy elsewhere in the country too. It broke out just hours after half of England was declared to be i...news.sky.com