global temperatures
Planet endures record-hot April, as scientists warn 2024 could beat heat records for second year in a row
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Extraordinary global heat continues its streak. Last month, the world endured the hottest April on record, according to new data from Copernicus, ...
World’s coral reefs hit by a fourth mass bleaching event, NOAA says
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Extreme ocean heat is causing a mass bleaching event in coral reefs across the globe, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Extreme temperatures are tied to more than half a million stroke deaths a year. With climate change, expect more
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In 2019 alone, more than half a million people died due to a stroke linked to high and low temperatures, a new ...
Great Barrier Reef again undergoes mass coral bleaching event
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The Great Barrier Reef – the world’s largest reef system that’s “one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth” ...
February 2024 was the hottest on record, data shows
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The world has marked yet another consecutive month of record-breaking heat. New data from Copernicus, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service, ...
The planet just shattered heat records for the ninth month in a row
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Last month was the planet’s hottest February on record, marking the ninth month in a row that global records tumbled, according to ...
Global hot streak continues. February, winter, world’s oceans all break high temperature marks.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole ...
Why so much of the US is unseasonably hot
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A powerful winter storm was dumping deep snow in parts of the West on Monday. Much of the central U.S. was unseasonably ...
Ice storms, downpours, heavy snow, no snow: Diagnosing ‘warming winter syndrome’
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One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The cascade ...
Wisconsin’s first recorded February tornado hits south of capital
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A rare winter tornado churned through southern Wisconsin on Thursday, snapping power poles, downing large trees and damaging homes. It was the ...
