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El Niño’s threat

Should we be afraid of the threat posed by the El Niño weather phenomenon? Not at all, because the government is already preparing to deal...

Europe warming twice as fast as other regions

Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, with extreme weather causing excess deaths and economic disruption. Many nations...

UN climate agency picks Argentina’s Saulo as first woman leader

The World Meteorological Organization voted Thursday for Argentina's Celeste Saulo to become its first woman leader and steer the WMO's critical global role in...

Global temperatures to break records in the next five years

Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fueled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El...

Warmest 5 years coming up—UN

GENEVA—It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned Wednesday, as greenhouse gases and El Niño...

Brace for new heat records: UN raises alert on El Niño by July

The United Nations warned Wednesday of a growing likelihood the weather phenomenon El Nino will develop in coming months, fueling higher global temperatures and...

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 for the Arctic, sounding...

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 extreme weather taking a...

Weather, climate disasters surge fivefold in past 50 years–UN

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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 set there. But such claims...

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 simply based on meteorological...

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 the next five years,...

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, the UN said Tuesday...

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 has reached an exceptional...
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