The US midwest typically spends the start of spring emerging from snow. But this year, after a warm winter left landscapes parched, the region instead…
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Europe unprepared for rapidly growing climate risks, report finds
Europe is not prepared for the rapidly growing climate risks it faces, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has said in its first risk assessment. From…
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The hottest year in recorded history casts doubts on humanity’s ability to deal with a climate crisis of its own making, senior scientists have said.…
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Earth’s “vital signs” are worse than at any time in human history, an international team of scientists has warned, meaning life on the planet is…
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As the world sweltered through the hottest three month spell in human history this summer, extreme weather disasters took more than 18,000 lives, drove at…
View More The hottest summer in human history – a visual timeline‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?
The record-shattering heatwaves, wildfires and floods destroying lives in the US, Europe, India, China and beyond in 2023 have raised an alarming question: have humanity’s…
View More ‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?Non-native grass species blamed for ferocity of Hawaii wildfires
Scientists and academics say they have been warning for several years that invasive grasses covering a quarter of the Hawaii islands are a major fire…
View More Non-native grass species blamed for ferocity of Hawaii wildfires‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record
The era of global warming has ended and “the era of global boiling has arrived”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said after scientists…
View More ‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on recordRisk of hot summer in UK is more than twice normal figure, forecasters warn
Temperatures have soared above 30C for the first time this year – and meteorologists forecast the chance of Britain experiencing a hot summer is now…
View More Risk of hot summer in UK is more than twice normal figure, forecasters warn‘Nowhere is safe now’: wildfire smoke brings climate crisis home to Americans
The unnerving sight of New York City’s skies turning a dystopian orange from wildfire smoke is just the latest in a barrage of recent distress…
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