Climate change made a two-week-long heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland around 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely, study says
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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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The Icelandic landscape is changing, and it's changing us
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Not every day that Father Christmas briefs his elves about the hazards of sunstroke, but this summer northern Finland has seen temperatures hover around 30°C for days on end
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Scientists estimate European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths last week
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Weather forecast is for extreme heat in Europe. Heat related deaths are expected.
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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In 2024, the warmest year on record in Europe according to the EU's Copernicus system, Swedish and Norwegian glaciers melted by an average of 1.8 metres
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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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