extreme weather

UN Secretary-General Warns of ‘Climate Hell’ After Planet Experiences String of Record Temperatures

UN Secretary-General Warns of ‘Climate Hell’ After Planet Experiences String of Record Temperatures

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for immediate action to avoid the world being in “climate hell” after this May was the warmest ever recorded, according to a recent report from the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). “It’s climate crunch time,” Guterres said at New York’s American Museum of Natural History on […]

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    Mexico Braces for Its ‘Highest Temperatures Ever Recorded’

    Mexico Braces for Its ‘Highest Temperatures Ever Recorded’

    Mexico could see record temperatures in the next two weeks, as extreme heat driven partially by El Niño blankets the country. A lack of sufficient rainfall has left 70 percent of Mexico suffering from drought conditions, with a third experiencing severe drought, the national water commission said, as Reuters reported. “In the next 10 to […]

    NOAA Predicts 8 to 13 Atlantic Hurricanes for 2024

    NOAA Predicts 8 to 13 Atlantic Hurricanes for 2024

    The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Climate Prediction Center has forecast an “above-normal” Atlantic hurricane season for 2024, with a projected range of 17 to 25 named storms, of which eight to 13 are predicted to become hurricanes, a press release from NOAA said. It is the most storms ever predicted by […]

    Southeast Asia’s Deadly Heat Wave in April Was 45x More Likely Due to Climate Change, Study Finds

    Southeast Asia’s Deadly Heat Wave in April Was 45x More Likely Due to Climate Change, Study Finds

    A new World Weather Attribution (WWA) study has found that the sweltering late-April heat wave across Southeast Asia and the Middle East was 45 times more likely due to human-caused climate change. For many days, temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit scorched large portions of the continent, from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Israel to Vietnam, the […]

    FERC Overhauls Electric Grid to Pave Way for Renewables

    FERC Overhauls Electric Grid to Pave Way for Renewables

    The United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Monday approved the first overhaul of the country’s electric transmission policy in more than a decade. The changes will make new interregional lines faster and bring more renewable energy to meet increasing demand. “Our country is facing an unprecedented surge in demand for affordable electricity while […]