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Extreme heat waves aren’t ‘just summer’: How climate change is heating up the weather, and what we...
The Conversation via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 week agoThe June heat wave triggered warnings of a flash drought and caused a surge in ER visits. Many other...
Olympics-To beat the heat, athletes bring cool tech to Paris 2024
Reuters via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoAs the Paris Olympics fast approaches, summertime temperatures will only continue to get hotter,...
UN agency: 2M killed, $4.3 trillion in damages from extreme weather over past half-century
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 year agoThe economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as...
The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 year agoThere's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the...
Heat Is Killing Thousands, and Big Events Have Not Adjusted
The New York Times via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 week agoSYDNEY — At large events all over the world, the scenes of extreme heat stress are starting to look...
Earth shattered global heat record in '23 and it's flirting with warming limit, European agency says
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 6 months agoEarth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming...
UN chief wants a tax on profits of fossil fuel companies, calling them 'godfathers of climate chaos'
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 1 month agoU.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called Wednesday for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil...
Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of 'crazy' ocean heat
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 months agoOcean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to...
The world faces a shortage of minerals needed for the energy transition
CNN Business via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 2 months agoThe world is facing a shortage of the minerals needed to make the electric vehicles, wind turbines,...
And the heat keeps coming: Global temperature record broken for 10th month in a row in March
LA Times via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 months agoWith an average surface temperature of 57.45 degrees, last month was warmer than any previous March...