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Stressed Out: How To Measure Dangerous Heat

In the hottest year on record, with scorching conditions claiming lives from India to Mexico and Greece sweltering in its earliest-ever heatwave, experts are sounding the alarm over heat stress.

International Business Times

Ban fossil fuel ads to save climate, says UN chief

Average global temperatures have an 80 per cent chance of increasing by 1.5C in the next five years, the UN warned

The Independent UK

World Will Likely Temporarily Pass 1.5C Climate Limit By 2028: UN

Humanity now faces an 80 percent chance that Earth's temperatures will at least temporarily exceed the key 1.5-degree Celsius mark during the next five years, the UN predicted Wednesday.

International Business Times

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Planet Overheating, Ban Fossil Fuel Ads: UN Chief

Humans are as dangerous to the planet as the meteorite that drove dinosaurs to extinction, the UN chief said Wednesday, as scientists announced the last 12 months were the hottest on record.

International Business Times

‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban

António Guterres says world faces ‘climate crunch time’ and announces dire new scientific warnings of global heating

The Guardian - US

The summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest in 2,000 years, scientists find

Using tree ring data, scientists have confirmed that summer 2023 was the hottest summer on Earth in the last 2,000 years.

Space

2023 'Year Of Record Climatic Hazards' In Latin America: UN

Latin America and the Caribbean had their warmest year on record in 2023 as a "double-whammy" of El Nino and climate change caused major weather calamities, the World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday.

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Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological Organization

The Guardian - UK

Ritacuba Blanco: Death Of A Colombian Glacier

Just a few months ago, the Colombian mountain peak of Ritacuba Blanco was covered in an unbroken layer of white ice and snow, just as it had been for as long as anyone can remember.

International Business Times

Asia bears biggest climate-change brunt amid extreme weather: WMO

UN agency says floods, storms leading cause of casualties and economic losses as impact of heatwaves intensifies.

Al Jazeera

Asia hit hardest by climate and weather disasters last year, says UN

Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties and economic losses.

France 24

Europe endured record number of ‘extreme heat stress’ days in 2023

New report warns people are increasingly at risk in a continent warming twice as fast as the global average.

Al Jazeera

Europe Suffered Record Number Of 'Extreme Heat Stress' Days In 2023: Monitors

Europe endured a record number of "extreme heat stress" days in 2023, two leading climate monitors said Monday, underscoring the threat of increasingly deadly summers across the continent.

International Business Times

Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs

Europeans are dying from hot weather 30% more than they did two decades ago, report finds

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Zimbabwe Declares El Nino Drought A National Disaster

Zimbabwe declared drought a national disaster on Wednesday, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the country needs $2 billion in aid to help millions of people who are going hungry.

The Hindu

Poll campaigns in India must reflect climate issues

The World Meteorological Organization report is worrisome, making it imperative to trigger collective public action — something similar to what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic

Evening Standard

Gina Miller: Ecocide should be criminalised as UK ‘far behind EU’

The anti-Brexit campaigner is backing policy proposals that would see major polluters jailed or facing a fine of up to £3.85 million

Radio France Internationale

UN weather agency marks anniversary with dire warning about heating planet

Stark climate warnings come ahead of this year's World Meteorological Day, observed on Saturday, with the UN's weather agency confirming that global temperatures had "smashed" heat records in 2023 – raising ocean temperatures and melting glaciers faster than before. Even hotter conditions are expected for the year ahead.

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Planet 'On The Brink', With New Heat Records Likely In 2024: UN

"There is a high probability that 2024 will again break the record of 2023", WMO climate monitoring chief Omar Baddour told reporters.

International Business Times

UN Warns Planet 'On The Brink' After Warmest Decade On Record

Global temperatures "smashed" heat records last year, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss, the United Nations said Tuesday -- warning 2024 was likely to be even hotter.

The Hindu

World Meteorological Organisation confirms 2023 as ‘hottest year’

2023 confirmed as hottest year on record by WMO, highlighting urgent need for global climate action.

The Guardian - UK

‘Red alert’: last year was hottest on record by clear margin, says UN report

Records being broken for greenhouse gas pollution, surface temperatures and ocean heat

The Hindu

2023-24 El Nino among five strongest on record, will continue fuelling heat in 2024: WMO

The 2023-24 El Nino has peaked as one of the five strongest on record and will continue to impact global climate in the coming months despite a weakening trend, the World Meteorological Organisation said.

Space

What are nacreous clouds?

Learn more about nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds. We take a look at how these colorful clouds form and why they're so rare.

International Business Times

UN Confirms Europe Hit Record High Temperature In 2021

The World Meteorological Organisation confirmed on Tuesday that continental Europe recorded in 2021 its highest ever temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit), and warned that new extremes were expected.

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