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UN warns ‘planet on the brink’ after warmest decade on record

By Nina LARSON GENEVA, March 19, 2024 (AFP) - Global heat records were "smashed" last year, the UN confirmed Tuesday,…

World warming at record 0.2C per decade, scientists warn

PARIS, June 8, 2023 (AFP) - Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in…

Fast-warming Europe risks more summer droughts: monitor

by Roland LLOYD PARRY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- A fierce drought melted glaciers during Europe's hottest recorded summer…

Sun, wind power make record 12% of world electricity: survey

Paris, France | AFP | Wednesday 4/12/2023 Solar and wind energy surged to make a record 12 percent of the…

Europe temperature rise more than twice global average: UN

  Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | by Nina LARSON Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global…

Arctic warming four times faster than rest of Earth: study

Eurasian sector of Arctic Ocean has also warmed as much as 1.25C per decade -- seven times faster than the…

UK sea levels rising quicker than century ago: study

  by Joe JACKSON Agence France Presse Sea levels are increasing around Britain at a far faster rate than a…

Antarctica hits record temperatures, say experts

PARIS, France (AFP) - Eastern Antarctica has recorded exceptionally high temperatures this week, more than 30 degrees Celsius above normal,…

Melting glaciers, fast-disappering gauge of climate change

by Pablo COZZAGLIO / Alberto PEÑA Agence France-Presse AYSEN, Chile (AFP) - A crack widens in the San Rafael glacier…

‘Alarm bells’ as UN validates record Arctic temperature

  GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The UN on Tuesday officially recognised the 38 degrees Celsius measured in Siberia last year…

La Niña climate cycle may reemerge in 2021: UN

  GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The weather phenomenon La Niña could resurface before the end of 2021, after petering out…

Hundreds of families homeless as Greek fires rage, rain saves Turkey

Hundreds of firefighters fought fires that have devoured record numbers of woodlands in Greece on Saturday and left hundreds of…

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