UK floods – and deaths – will keep rising without proper defences and conservation

Global climate breakdown is behind the increasingly stormy weather but domestic solutions are essential

• Storm Henk flooding – live updates

Large areas of England are submerged under murky floodwater, with homes damaged, farm crops rotting, and rail routes and roads unusable.

The UK is a rainy country, and some parts of it are quite used to regular floods, but the situation is worsening. Global climate breakdown caused by the burning of fossil fuels is causing more unpredictable and extreme weather events and the domestic infrastructure is underfunded and cannot cope sufficiently.