In sweltering Brazil, the worst floods ever killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about four million inhabitants. Voters and politicians at the world’s biggest elections in India are fainting from heat that can reach 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people … Read more
In much of America, especially in the normally cold north, the country experienced the winter months without, well, winter. In the parka strongholds of Burlington, Vermont and Portland, Maine, the thermometer never dropped below zero. The state of Minnesota called the past three months “the lost winter,” warmer than the infamous “year without winter” in … Read more
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the eighth month in a row, the Earth was record warm in January, according to the European Climate Agency. That was evident in the northern United States, where about a thousand people were golfing in a snow-starved Minneapolis last month during what the state is calling “the lost winter … Read more
Much of the United States is shivering in brutal cold, while most of the world is experiencing unusually warm weather. As strange as it may sound, that contradiction fits neatly into the explanations of what climate change is doing to the Earth, scientists say. On a map of global temperatures over the past few days, … Read more
Much of the United States is shivering in brutal cold, while most of the world is experiencing unusually warm weather. As strange as it may sound, that contradiction fits neatly into the explanations of what climate change is doing to the Earth, scientists say. On a map of global temperatures over the past few days, … Read more
The latest calculations from several scientific agencies showing that Earth shattered global heat records last year may seem frightening. But scientists fear what’s behind these numbers could be even worse. The Associated Press asked more than three dozen scientists in interviews and emails what the destroyed records mean. Most said they fear an acceleration of … Read more
The latest calculations from several scientific agencies showing that Earth shattered global heat records last year may seem frightening. But scientists fear what’s behind these numbers could be even worse. The Associated Press asked more than three dozen scientists in interviews and emails what the destroyed records mean. Most said they fear an acceleration of … Read more
The first days of the new year brought confirmation of disturbing news: 2023 was the warmest year on record. Researchers expected this to be the case amid brutal daily and monthly record temperatures – but just how significant were these numbers, and what does this mean for the future of our planet? warming planet? These … Read more
DENVER (AP) — River basins around the world that were once regularly covered in snow are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink and climate change is to blame, a new study shows. “Many of the world’s most densely populated basins are on the brink of rapid snowfall,” concluded the study of snow amounts since 1981 in … Read more
Global warming reached 1.48 degrees Celsius in 2023, data published on Tuesday showed, as the world’s warmest year on record left the world just hundredths of a degree shy of a critical climate threshold. Analyzes from last year had already confirmed that 2023 would be the warmest year on record, but Tuesday’s data shows an … Read more