World Climate

Last month was the hottest June on record globally, capping a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, Dawn Newspaper reported citing the EU’s climate monitor. Every month since June 2023 has set a new temperature record, a “large and continuing…

Hurricane Beryl, the first major hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, has left a trail of destruction across the eastern Caribbean before setting its sights on the Cayman Islands. UN agencies have sounded alarm on the level of damage caused…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called on the international community to take urgent action on climate change, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. In a message on Saturday, Guterres emphasized the critical importance of the next 18 months in the fight…

A scorching heatwave is gripping cities across the Northern Hemisphere, raising concerns about climate change. Record-breaking temperatures are suspected to have caused hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths in recent days, particularly in Europe and Asia. In Saudi Arabia, hundreds…

A new report by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) and UNICEF unveils a terrifying statistic: nearly 2,000 children under five die every day due to air pollution, the Guardian published in an article yesterday. This makes air pollution the second…

Extreme temperatures are sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere, with the United States, Europe, and Asia experiencing deadly heatwaves and wildfires, the Associated Press reported yesterday. The U.S. South is bracing for another heat wave, and the National Weather Service expects…

According to the latest predictions from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is an 80% chance that global average temperatures will surpass the 1.5°C warming limit set in the Paris Agreement for at least one of the next five years.…

A team of 57 scientists from around the world has found that the record-shattering heat levels experienced in 2023 were overwhelmingly caused by human activities, the Associate Press reported today. The researchers, using United Nations-approved methods, determined that 92% of…

A new study has revealed that more than a third of the Amazon rainforest is struggling to recover from recent droughts, signaling a critical loss of resilience in this globally crucial ecosystem, the Guardian reported yesterday. The research, published in…

In late April, sizzling temperatures swept across Asia and the Middle East, exacerbating existing crises and posing grave threats to vulnerable populations. A new study has found that this extreme heat was made up to 45 times more likely due…