The Government has been accused of a “colossal failure” to educate the British public about the risks of global warming, after official data confirmed that 2014 was the hottest year in the UK since

Invasive species impact on the biodiversity of Britain by eating native species as well as affecting human health and the economy.

The UK can expect to see increasingly extreme weather as climate change pushes temperatures up in the Arctic at twice the global average, according to new research.

Climate change is set to unleash a series of decades-long “megadroughts” this century, according to research to be published this week.