Met Office data shows the UK average annual temperatures have risen by 3.9 per cent since 2015 with some months seeing a 50 per cent increase, allowing gardeners to grow a wider range of plants.
Carpets of woodland bluebells could become a rarer sight as warmer temperatures lead the plants to bloom out of sync with optimum conditions, putting them at risk, a new WWF report says.
The gunk - officially known as marine mucilage - is produced by plankton when under stress and is currently clogging the waters near Istanbul, blighting fishermen and suffocating marine life.
Oxygen levels in the world s temperate freshwater lakes are declining faster than in the oceans, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York say.
A new online tool has been launched by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and Cranfield University to calculate the potential saving from adopting different water efficient practices.