Europe's climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.
The Atlantic hurricane season does not begin for another eight weeks, but we are deep in the heart of hurricane season prediction season.
Extreme temperature events are often accompanied by greater solar radiation and higher wind speeds that could be captured by solar panels and wind turbines.
This year has a one-in-three chance of being even hotter than 2023, which was already the world's hottest on record.
Globally, December, January and February came in at 0.78C above average. But the last three months are part of a much bigger climate change picture.
Currently, the scale ranks hurricanes from 1 to 5. Now some researchers are now calling for a category 6 to be added because of the changing Earth.
Researchers peering back through 800 years of history have concluded that Mayan civilizetion may well have been undone by drought.
Nearly five times more people will likely die due to extreme heat in the coming decades, an international team of experts said Wednesday, warning that without action on climate change the "health of humanity is at grave risk".
Within 12 hours Hurricane Otis which slammed into the coastal city of Acapulco, Mexico went from a regular tropical storm to a “category 5” hurricane, the most powerful category and one which might occur only a few times worldwide each year.
More than 300 forest and peatland fires are blazing across Indonesia, prompting government officials to ask people to work from home. A prolonged dry season has caused higher risks of wildfires.
A research team has now found that climate change has a much greater impact on the intensity and frequency of heat extremes in the soil than in the air.
Experts have found that the human body has an "upper critical temperature" of between 40C and 50C, a limit which, if surpassed, can cause it to start malfunctioning.
The temperatures are being driven by human-induced climate change and the naturally-occurring weather pattern known as El Niño, scientists say. Last month was the hottest June on record, the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus said on Thursday.
The UK research shows that unprecedented heat extremes combined with socioeconomic vulnerability puts certain regions, such as Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and Central America,most in peril.
According to the new paper, 16 of 35 planetary vital signs have now reached record extremes. That includes rises in the frequency of dangerous heat events, global tree cover loss from fires and the prevalence of the mosquito-borne dengue virus.
