Record-breaking wildfires in the Western US (2020) reduced solar radiation by up to 70%, darkening skies and lowering temperatures by 5°C
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As warmer Finnish winters melt the snow drifts that endangered Saimaa ringed seals use to raise their young, humans are giving them a helping hand
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Heat pumps used to struggle in the cold. Not anymore.
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Monday breaks the record for the hottest day ever on Earth
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CrowdStrike chaos leads to grounded aircraft — and maybe an unusual weather effect
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New NOAA heat severity classification system for heat-related impacts on people (similar to hurricanes)
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Research on Earth’s raging fever of 2023-24 is picking up
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Deaths mount and water rationed as India faces record heat
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Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks.
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Phoenix passes historic ordinance giving outdoor workers protection from extreme heat
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A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing
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Russia’s fabled war ally ‘General Frost’ turns on Moscow
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See how 2023 shattered records to become the hottest year
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Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped in Skåne – travel chaos occurred amid plummeting winter temperatures across the Nordic countries
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Earth briefly surpasses key climate threshold for first time
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Despite it still being spring in Brazil, temperatures reach 35-40 degrees Celsius almost every day in dangerous heatwave
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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New research suggests Antarctica warming faster than previously thought
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Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold
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The world has just experienced the hottest summer on record -- by a significant margin
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Three big, bold ideas to douse the flames of a world on fire
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How extreme heat hits America's hungry
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Berkeley Earth June 2023 temperature update
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'Could be a world record': South Florida ocean temperature hits 101.1°F
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Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world.
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
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The heat-resistant organism in antler coral may help it adapt as ocean temperatures increase
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Soaring temperatures and raging fires: Europe faces its second heat wave in a week
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In the US, as the planet records some of its highest average temperatures, workers have barely any legal protections from extreme heat
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‘Extreme threat’: Large swathe of southern US at dangerous ‘wet bulb temperature’
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Heat and smoke are smothering most of the US, putting lives at risk
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World Meteorological Organization says Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world
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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland
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This is what 3°C of global warming looks like
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Sweden's only remaining mountaintop glacier lost another two metres in height in the past year due to rising air temperatures driven by climate change
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Can we survive extreme heat?
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Ground temperatures in Siberia reach extremes of 48°C, air temperatures reach 30°C
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Why wind turbines in New York keep working in bitter cold weather unlike the ones in Texas
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More trees do not always create a cooler planet (and in some places deforestation cools more)
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Animation representing the global annual temperature anomaly over time, discretised by month, from 1880–2020
@Scott Duncan: Wait for it...Our planet is pulsing warmer and warmer. 2020 will serve as a stark reminder that our climate is continuing to rapidly change.Each bar of colour represents a month of global temperature as we loop through 140 years of data from 1880 to 2020.[THREAD] pic.twitter.com/geNg2kDeYd
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The South Pole is warming fast. Very fast.
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In nearly every part of the world, heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration since the 1950s
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Risk of 40°C/104°F heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office—a temperature never before recorded in the UK could possibly occur as frequently as once every 3.5 years by 2100
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Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100°F/37°C reading in Siberia
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Swedish mountain loses highest peak title due to global heating – glacier at Kebnekaise's summit has shrunk amid soaring Arctic temperatures
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Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise
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Icelanders can't remember a hotter summer – it's nice, and worrying
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Paris records its hottest day, 108.6° F / 42.6° C, as heat wave scorches Europe
28 votes