‘Climate collapse in real time’: UN head António Guterres urges Cop28 to act World Meteorological Organization says 2023 will be hottest year on record, leaving ‘trail of devastation and despair’ The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023
Climate-heating gases reach record highs, UN reports World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2023
Most countries can’t access climate data A report finds only 23 percent of countries use climate data to inform their public health strategies Salon · Nov 6, 2023
World ill-prepared to stop climate crisis reversing progress on health, says study UN meteorological body finds health experts have access to heat warning services in only half of affected countries The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2023
Climate change 'threatens to reverse decades of progress on human health' UN weather agency warns of heightened risk of disease and heat deaths Evening Standard · Nov 2, 2023
A Sizzling, Record-Breaking Summer Experts warn that increasingly high temperatures are "a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system." Texas Observer · Sep 21, 2023
Fury over ‘avoidable’ deaths in Libya floods as thousands buried in mass graves with 11,000 confirmed killed Officials in hardest-hit city of Derna believe toll could reach 20,000 – amid calls for inquiry into collapse of dams that drove flooding The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2023
Functioning weather service may have prevented Libya flood casualties: WMO WMO boss says many people could have been saved if divided country had a normally operating meteorological service. Al Jazeera · Sep 14, 2023
Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures Tweet viewed millions of times claimed ground temperature was being confused with air temperature The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023
Greece weather forecast: more storms batter Europe as tourists trapped abroad Skiathos and other parts of Greece and Turkey to be hit with further rain and thunderstorms The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2023
UN warns of 'climate breakdown' after searing summer heat The United Nations on Wednesday warned that “climate breakdown has begun” after Earth experienced its hottest three months on record. The announcement comes on the same day that EU climate monitors said 2023 would likely be the hottest year in human history. Radio France Internationale · Sep 6, 2023
World meteorologists point to ‘vicious cycle’ of heatwaves and air pollution The climate crisis and soaring temperatures are worsening air quality, WMO says, with ‘knock-on effects’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2023
UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Al Jazeera · Sep 6, 2023
This summer was the hottest on record across the Northern Hemisphere, the U.N. says The world's oceans were the hottest ever recorded, while Antarctica continued to set records for low amounts of sea ice, the World Meteorological Organization said. WEKU · Sep 6, 2023
The Independent UK · Sep 6, 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 3, 2023 First ever Africa climate summit aims to address ‘climate blind spot’ African countries expected to agree a series of green deals, with the continent facing the brunt of the climate crisis
Al Jazeera · Sep 3, 2023 Africa faces ‘climate risk blind spot’ amid lack of weather radar Vast expanse of the 54-nation continent is relatively unserved and unwarned by inadequate weather forecasts.
The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2023 As Africa opens a climate summit, poor weather forecasting keeps the continent underprepared Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted
The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023 Why destructive hurricanes like Idalia often start with the letter ‘I’ Idalia tore through Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas this week
The Conversation · Aug 21, 2023 A billion people in Africa are at a climate risk blind spot Disasters related to the weather or climate are becoming more common. Since 1970, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of weather-related disasters, causing economic damages that have surged a staggering 70 times over the same period.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2023 Return of El Niño raises risk of hunger, drought and malaria, scientists warn Hot natural weather pattern will exacerbate heat-related dangers brought about by climate crisis
The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2023 ‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record Head of World Meteorological Organization also warns ‘climate action is not a luxury but a must’ as temperatures soar
The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2023 Hottest July on record and possibly in the last 120,000 years, say scientists With only three weeks worth of data, meteorologists are ‘virtually certain’ this month will raise the bar given how hot it has been.
Al Jazeera · Jul 26, 2023 ‘A hot tub’: Florida sees record water temperatures, raising alarm Seawater around southern US state reaches 38.4C in what could be hottest ocean temperature ever recorded.
Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2023 Italy breaking temperature records as wildfires rage in Greece Europe’s heat wave is getting worse, with temperatures forecast to peak at 47C (116.6F) on Wednesday in Sicily and Sardinia, while wildfires continue to rage in Greece.