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Korean peninsula swelters, Seoul nears ‘tropical nights’ record
Korean peninsula swelters, Seoul nears ‘tropical nights’ recordNews

Korean peninsula swelters, Seoul nears ‘tropical nights’ record

Seoul, South Korea (AFP) - A streak of super-hot tropical nights is set to break a century-old South Korean weather record, according to official data…
SourceSourceAugust 14, 2024 Full article
Climate Warming and Rainfall Variability in the Three Gorges Region in 2022–2023
Climate Warming and Rainfall Variability in the Three Gorges Region in 2022–2023Science

Climate Warming and Rainfall Variability in the Three Gorges Region in 2022–2023

By Institute of Atmospheric Physics | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) The Three Gorges Region of the Yangtze River (TGR) in China has a unique…
SourceSourceAugust 9, 2024 Full article
Great Barrier Reef facing catastrophic damage, research shows
Great Barrier Reef facing catastrophic damage, research showsClimate

Great Barrier Reef facing catastrophic damage, research shows

By University of Melbourne The Great Barrier Reef is under significant pressure, with warming sea temperatures and mass coral bleaching events threatening to destroy the…
SourceSourceAugust 7, 2024 Full article
Four killed after Storm Debby hits Florida coast
Four killed after Storm Debby hits Florida coastNews

Four killed after Storm Debby hits Florida coast

Miami, United States (AFP) (UPDATED) - Tropical Storm Debby drenched Florida on Monday, killing at least four people and threatening southeastern US states with heavy…
SourceSourceAugust 6, 2024 Full article
Exposure to Climate Events and Mental Health: Insights from the California Health Interview Survey
Exposure to Climate Events and Mental Health: Insights from the California Health Interview SurveyClimate

Exposure to Climate Events and Mental Health: Insights from the California Health Interview Survey

The link between climate change and mental health has become increasingly apparent, with more than one in five Californians affected by climate events reporting negative…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreAugust 3, 2024 Full article
Heat claims over 175,000 lives annually in Europe: WHO
Heat claims over 175,000 lives annually in Europe: WHONews

Heat claims over 175,000 lives annually in Europe: WHO

In a dire warning issued yesterday, Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, highlighted the escalating threat of extreme heat in the…
Adrian AlexandreAdrian AlexandreAugust 2, 2024 Full article
NASA data shows July 22 was Earth’s hottest day on record
NASA data shows July 22 was Earth’s hottest day on recordClimate

NASA data shows July 22 was Earth’s hottest day on record

By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on record, according to a NASA analysis of global daily temperature data. July…
SourceSourceJuly 30, 2024 Full article
Typhoon Gaemi displaces nearly 300,000 in eastern China
Typhoon Gaemi displaces nearly 300,000 in eastern ChinaClimateNews

Typhoon Gaemi displaces nearly 300,000 in eastern China

By Isabel Kua and Oliver Hotham | AFP Beijing, China - Authorities evacuated nearly 300,000 people and suspended public transport across eastern China on Friday,…
SourceSourceJuly 26, 2024 Full article
UN Secretary-General Issues Call to Action on Extreme Heat Amid Record Temperatures
UN Secretary-General Issues Call to Action on Extreme Heat Amid Record TemperaturesClimateNews

UN Secretary-General Issues Call to Action on Extreme Heat Amid Record Temperatures

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has joined nine other specialized United Nations entities in supporting UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Call to Action on Extreme Heat.…
SourceSourceJuly 26, 2024 Full article
Humanity suffering from ‘extreme heat epidemic,’ UN chief warns
Humanity suffering from ‘extreme heat epidemic,’ UN chief warnsClimateNews

Humanity suffering from ‘extreme heat epidemic,’ UN chief warns

By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS | AFP United Nations, United States - Humanity is suffering from an "extreme heat epidemic," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday, calling…
SourceSourceJuly 25, 2024 Full article
Morocco heatwave kills more than 20 people in 24 hours
Morocco heatwave kills more than 20 people in 24 hoursClimateNews

Morocco heatwave kills more than 20 people in 24 hours

Rabat, Morocco (AFP) - A heatwave in Morocco has killed at least 21 people in a 24-hour period in the central city of Beni Mellal,…
SourceSourceJuly 25, 2024 Full article
Philippine death toll from typhoon-fuelled rains hits 20: police
Philippine death toll from typhoon-fuelled rains hits 20: policeNews

Philippine death toll from typhoon-fuelled rains hits 20: police

Manila, Philippines (AFP) - Relentless rain fuelled by Typhoon Gaemi left at least 20 people dead in the northern Philippines, police said Thursday, as clean-up…
SourceSourceJuly 25, 2024 Full article
Global climate summary for June 2024
Global climate summary for June 2024ClimateFacts

Global climate summary for June 2024

By NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and Global Precipitation Climatology Project | University of Maryland Highlights Temperatures were above average over much of the…
SourceSourceJuly 19, 2024 Full article
Heavy rains kill 5, leave 8 missing in northern China: state media
Heavy rains kill 5, leave 8 missing in northern China: state mediaNews

Heavy rains kill 5, leave 8 missing in northern China: state media

Beijing, China (AFP) - Torrential rains have killed five people and left eight missing in northern China's Shaanxi province, state media reported Friday. Heavy rain…
SourceSourceJuly 19, 2024 Full article
Why we find extreme weather so fascinating
Why we find extreme weather so fascinatingClimate

Why we find extreme weather so fascinating

By Will de Freitas | The Conversation When climate change leads the news, it’s often down to a hurricane, heatwave or flood. And, judging by…
SourceSourceJuly 19, 2024 Full article
Weather experts discover new effect of storm – in a teacup
Weather experts discover new effect of storm – in a teacupScience

Weather experts discover new effect of storm – in a teacup

By University of Reading Britain, prepare for deep depression: storms ruin tea. A new study reveals that Storm Ciaran cut an invisible path of mayhem…
SourceSourceJuly 16, 2024 Full article
Scientists release new research on planted mangroves’ ability to store carbon
Scientists release new research on planted mangroves’ ability to store carbonScience

Scientists release new research on planted mangroves’ ability to store carbon

By USDA Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station Mangrove nurseries in Maputo, Mozambique, managed by the local community with technical support from the U.S. Forest…
SourceSourceJuly 11, 2024 Full article
Canada’s government links June heat wave to climate change
Canada’s government links June heat wave to climate changeClimateNews

Canada’s government links June heat wave to climate change

Montreal, Canada (AFP) - Canada's environment ministry said Tuesday that climate change made a recent east coast heat wave two to 10 times more likely,…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2024 Full article
Six dead in Tokyo as Japan swelters in heatwave
Six dead in Tokyo as Japan swelters in heatwaveNews

Six dead in Tokyo as Japan swelters in heatwave

By Tomohiro OSAKI | AFP Tokyo, Japan - Six people have died of heatstroke in Tokyo as Japan swelters under a rare rainy season heatwave,…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2024 Full article
Mexico girds for hit from Hurricane Beryl
Mexico girds for hit from Hurricane BerylNews

Mexico girds for hit from Hurricane Beryl

By Ivan SHAW | AFP Cancún, Mexico - Tourist resorts in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula girded Thursday for a hit from Hurricane Beryl, which is still…
SourceSourceJuly 5, 2024 Full article
UN climate chief’s family impacted by Hurricane Beryl
UN climate chief’s family impacted by Hurricane BerylClimateNews

UN climate chief’s family impacted by Hurricane Beryl

Paris, France (AFP) - UN climate chief Simon Stiell has warned that the destructive consequences of global warming are "not a tomorrow problem" after Hurrican…
SourceSourceJuly 2, 2024 Full article
2023 cyclone Freddy longest on record at 36 days: UN
2023 cyclone Freddy longest on record at 36 days: UNNews

2023 cyclone Freddy longest on record at 36 days: UN

Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) - Cyclone Freddy, which crossed the entire southern Indian Ocean before wreaking devastation on southeastern Africa last year, was the longest-lasting tropical…
SourceSourceJuly 2, 2024 Full article
Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Grenada island of Carriacou: US tracker
Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Grenada island of Carriacou: US trackerNews

Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Grenada island of Carriacou: US tracker

Bridgetown, Barbados (AFP) - Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, slammed into the Caribbean island of Carriacou, which is part of Grenada,…
SourceSourceJuly 1, 2024 Full article
Caribbean braces for powerful Hurricane Beryl
Caribbean braces for powerful Hurricane BerylNews

Caribbean braces for powerful Hurricane Beryl

By Chandan KHANNA | AFP Bridgetown, Barbados - Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean late Sunday as officials warned residents to seek shelter ahead…
SourceSourceJuly 1, 2024 Full article