内容摘要：to keep up with the latest climate and environment stories with the BBC's Justin Rowlatt. Outside the UK?

to keep up with the latest climate and environment stories with the BBC's Justin Rowlatt. Outside the UK?

The country is warming at a rate twice as that of the global average due to its large land mass, and its Arctic region is warming three times as fast.Xiao Chen turned up at the US Consulate in Shanghai on Thursday morning, hours after Washington announced that it would

The 22-year-old had a visa appointment: she was headed to Michigan in the autumn to study communications.After a "pleasant" conversation, she was told her application had been rejected. She was not given a reason."I feel like a drifting duckweed tossed in wind and storm," she said, using a common Chinese expression used to describe feeling both uncertain and helpless.

She had been hopeful because she already had the acceptance letter. And she thought she had narrowly escaped the bombshells in recent days.First, Donald Trump's administration moved to end

, a move that has since been blocked in court. And then it said it had

for all foreign students.Several scientists have told the BBC that widespread firings by President Donald Trump's administration of government researchers could endanger efforts to monitor hurricanes and predict where they might hit.

Today's 2025 Atlantic season outlook covers the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, called the Gulf of America by the Trump administration.In total NOAA expects between 13 and 19 named tropical storms. Of these, between six and 10 could become hurricanes, including three to five major ones – meaning they reach category three or above (111mph or 178km/h).

That's not as many as last year's very active season, which saw 18 tropical storms including 11 hurricanes of which five were major hurricanes.But it's more than the long-term average of 14 named tropical storms a year, of which seven are usually hurricanes, with three major ones among them.