Climate change in the Midlands is a serious local concern.

Cliff Mitchell - 26/10/2025
 

River Teme floods at Leintwardine image by Peter Evans. CC BY-NC 2.0

Climate change is a global emergency, but its impacts and solutions must also be a local priority for the Midlands.

The Midlands is experiencing the full force of climate change with wetter winters, drier summers, increased heat-related deaths, a five-fold increase in floods since 2000, damage to local infrastructure, drops in crop yields and economic impacts. If you’re not worried about climate change in the Midlands, you should be. But there’s good news too.

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