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UN chief calls rising seas a 'worldwide catastrophe' that especially imperils Pacific paradises

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is putting out yet another climate SOS to the world

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2024

Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth's temperatures soar to record highs

As the warming Earth sizzled through a week with four of the hottest days ever measured, the world focused on cold hard numbers that showed the average daily temperature for the entire planet

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2024

A slight temperature drop makes Tuesday the world's second-hottest day

Global temperatures have dropped slightly after breaking the all-time heat record the two previous days

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2024

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Beryl set to strengthen on approach to Texas due to hot ocean temperatures

After hitting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and downgrading to a tropical storm, Beryl is expected to once again become a hurricane as it hurtles towards southern Texas by Sunday evening

The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2024

How the hot water that fueled Hurricane Beryl foretells a scary storm season

Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season they can expect

The Independent UK · Jul 1, 2024

AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat

An Associated Press analysis of federal data shows that about 2,300 people in the United States died in the summer of 2023 with their death certificates mentioning the effects of excessive heat

The Independent UK · May 31, 2024

Climate change is shrinking snowpack in many places, study shows. And it will get worse

Areas across the globe have seen spring snowpack shrink over the last 40 years, and a new study says for many of them climate change is clearly to blame

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2024

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Worsening warming is hurting people in all regions, US climate assessment shows

A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States

The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2023

It's official. Meteorologists say this summer's swelter was a global record breaker for high heat

The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2023

Trouble in paradise? AP data analysis shows fires, other disasters are increasing in Hawaii

Hurricane-fueled flash floods and mudslides

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2023

Phoenix's long simmering heat poised to break records for relentless high temperatures

A relentless, dangerous streak of temperatures hitting 110 degrees or more is poised to smash a record for Phoenix and for major U.S. cities showing that Earth’s summer swelter is as persistent as it is hot

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023

Florida in hot water as ocean temperatures rise along with the humidity

Record ocean heat has invaded Florida with a vengeance

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2023

World swelters to unofficial hottest day on record Monday then gets even hotter Tuesday

Scientists at the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer project calculate that entire planet sweltered to the unofficial hottest day in human recordkeeping July 3 and then soared past that to an even hotter day on July 4

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2023

Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the 'new abnormal'

As smoky as the summer has been so far, scientists say it will likely be worse in future years because of climate change

The Independent UK · Jul 1, 2023

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The Independent UK · Jun 8, 2023

Here comes El Nino: It's early, likely to be big, sloppy and add even more heat to a warming world

After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday and stated that this one might be different than the others

The Independent UK · May 31, 2023

Triple-whammy of cyclones, a 1-in-200-year event, drove Italy's deadly flooding, scientists say

A group of scientists say in a new study that climate change in itself wasn't responsible for a series of exceptional rain and resulting deadly flooding in northern Italy in recent weeks

The Independent UK · May 5, 2023

Spain's April heat nearly impossible without climate change

Record-breaking April temperatures in Spain, Portugal and northern Africa were made 100 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new flash study found, and would have been almost impossible in the past

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2022

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The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2022

Randy Schmid, AP science writer with a whimsical touch, dies

Randy Schmid, a retired Associated Press science writer who seldom missed a chance to add a whimsical touch to his authoritative stories, has died

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2022

UN chief: World is in `life-or-death struggle' for survival

U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the world is in “a life-or-death struggle” for survival as “climate chaos gallops ahead.”

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2022

EXPLAINER: Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming

What's behind the flooding in Pakistan are all hallmarks of manmade climate change: Warmer temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture then dumping unrelenting rain, and melting glaciers

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2022

Gas prices 'double-edged sword' hurts drivers, helps climate

President Biden's climate agenda has been stymied by Congress and the Supreme Court

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