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22 days ago
World Meteorological Organization forecasts more likelihood of heatwaves, droughts and heavy rainfall due to El Nino.
51 days ago
‘Unpredictable and extreme’: Asia braces for El Niño ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Weather models project a potentially strong El Niño this year, which could spell disaster for heatwave-hit India, drench China and hurt agriculture across south-east Asia
The UN has warned that the wo…
54 days ago
Prepare for imminent return of El Niño, UN warns ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
UN agency predicts phenomenon that supercharges weather extremes has 80% chance of forming before September
The world must prepare for the imminent return of El Niño and the supercharged weather extre…
3 months ago
World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns ⊖
Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise
Extreme heat is threatening the world’s food systems, with farmers …
4 months ago
Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat
Our home planet is struggling with a record energy imbalance,…
Making it rain: Why more and more countries are turning to cloud seeding ○
Cloud seeding programs are now taking place in more than 50 countries across the globe, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
6 months ago
Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C ‘dead in the water’
Last year was the third hottest on record, scientists have said, with mounting fossil fuel …
11 months ago
US lightning flash was longest on record at 515 miles, scientists say ○
The 2017 flash, which stretched from east Texas to near Kansas City, beat the previous record by almost 50 miles
A 515-mile (829km) lightning flash has set a new record as the longest ever identified.
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13 months ago
Marine heatwave found to have engulfed area of ocean five times the size of Australia ○
World Meteorological Organization report says record heat in 2024 was driven by climate crisis and intersected with extreme weather events
Almost 40 million sq kilometres of ocean around south-east As…
Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030
There is an 80% chance that global temperatures will break at least one annual heat record in the n…