UN validates record Arctic temperature
The UN on Tuesday officially recognised the 38 degrees Celsius measured in Siberia last year as a new record high ...
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2020: Hottest year on record for Asia
Asia suffered its hottest year on record in 2020, the United Nations said Tuesday ahead of the COP26 summit, with ...
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Weather, climate disasters surge fivefold in past 50 years–UN
The United Nations warned Wednesday that weather-related disasters have skyrocketed over the past half-century, causing far more damage even as ...
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UN hot on the trail of temperature records
During last week's heatwaves in Italy and Spain, meteorologists in both countries announced provisional data suggesting temperature records had been ...
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UN warns of COVID becoming seasonal
COVID-19 appears likely to develop into a seasonal disease, the United Nations said Thursday, cautioning though against relaxing pandemic-related measures ...
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UN forecasts even warmer temperatures over next 5 years
The annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least one degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels in each of ...
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UN: Cut down on fossil fuel emissions or disaster strikes
The world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions, ...
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Forest fires in Siberia spark potential disaster for Arctic
Moscow"•Gigantic forest fires have regularly raged through the vast expanses of Russia’s Siberia, but the magnitude of this year’s blazes ...
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