Whitehaven Harbour being battered by storm waves, Cumbria, UK.
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An RAF Sea King helicopter prepares to drop salvage experts onto a ship washed ashore off Blackpool. The MS Riverdance was lost in 2008 when a huge wave shifted the vehicle cargo on the decks, causing the ship to list violently. As climate change takes hold, more damage is occurring as the weather becomes more violent.Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Images From A Warming Planet

In early December 2015, storm Desmond crashed into the UK, producing the UK’s highest ever 24-hour rainfall total. It flooded the Lyth Valley in Cumbria, submerging many farms and houses.
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A caravan park that contained around 30 static caravans in Cumbria. All of the vans were damaged and many destroyed when the River Eden flooded as a result of storm Desmond.
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Storm Desmond completely destroyed Pooley Bridge, which had spanned the River Eamont below Ullswater since 1764.
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Kayakers and a stranded motorist in the floodwaters on the road at Storth on the Kent Estuary.
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A collapsed coastal road between Skipsea and Ulrome on Yorkshire’s coast.
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Protests against Cuadrilla, which applied to frack for shale gas in several sites in Lancashire.
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Huge blades to be used at Walney offshore windfarm, Cumbria.
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