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The storm, which struck Monday, caused significant damage to homes and infrastructure. Disaster teams are assessing the damage and providing relief, with displaced residents sheltered in government buildings. The South African Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes struck the region, causing widespread destruction. The province, historically prone to extreme weather, faced similar devastation in 2022 with over 300 deaths due to severe flooding.
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is predicting an 80 per cent chance that average global temperatures will surpass the 1.5 Celsius target laid out in the landmark Paris climate accord within the next five years. It is also likely - an 86 per cent chance - that at least one of these years will set a new temperature record, beating 2023 which is currently the warmest year. The UN weather agency said Wednesday that the global mean near-surface temperature for each year from 2024 to 2028 is expected to range between 1.1 and 1.9 degrees Celsius hotter than at the start of the industrial ...
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May 2024 was the warmest May ever recorded, marking the 12th record-breakingly hot month in a row, Copernicus scientists have said. Last month, the world's average temperature was 1.52°C higher than the average from 1850 to 1900, before industrialisation, according to the EU’s climate monitoring service. It marks the 12th consecutive month where temperatures have been hotter than ever recorded with the global average surface air temperature 0.65°C higher than the average from 1991 to 2020. “It is shocking but not surprising that we have reached this 12-month streak. While this sequence of reco...
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Europe is bracing for its first spell of hot weather this summer as Germany and the Nordics are set for unusually high temperatures next week. The risk of heatwaves at the Paris Olympic Games has left organisers sweating about the safety of athletes. Spain is bracing itself for another blistering summer, releasing a new map to help with more accurate heatwave predictions. Cities across the continent are preparing with adaptations for extreme heat. We’ve now had 11 record-breaking months of heat in a row and sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic have soared to their highest in at least...
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Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” could make the current global coral bleaching the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes as they cool the oceans. More than three-fifths - 62.9% - of the world's coral reefs are badly hurting from a bleaching event that began last year and is continuing. That's nearing the record of 65.7% in 2017, when from 2009 to 2017 about one-seventh of the world's coral died, says Derek Manzello, coordinator of the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch Program. When water gets to...
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Climate change is putting countless marine animals under pressure but jellyfish could actually benefit from warming ocean waters. A study by researchers at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) looked at eight different species of Arctic jellyfish. They exposed them to rising water temperatures, sea ice retreat and other changing environmental conditions through computer models. Scientists found that by the second half of the century, seven of the eight species could expand their habitat polewards under these conditions. Simulations showed that the lion’s mane jellyfish - one of the biggest...
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Airlines have hit back against EU plans to monitor contrails from aircraft, claiming too little is known about their climate impact to regulate them. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says it’s too soon to implement regulations as there are still “gaps” in scientific knowledge about their impact. New EU regulations will see airlines required to measure and report non-CO2 emissions from flights from January 2025. That would include contrails, nitrogen oxides and sulphur. Contrails or condensation trails are created when ice crystals form around tiny particles of carbon emitted ...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — South Korean automobile giant Hyundai has ended an agreement with Adaro Minerals, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s second-largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, to procure aluminum for its electric vehicle (EV) production. Hyundai and Adaro Minerals signed the agreement in November 2022, and at the end of 2023, both agreed not to renew the agreement and “to explore other opportunities independently,” Hyundai said in a statement. The decision came on the heels of campaigns by K-pop fans who urged Hyundai to back out of the agreement and to avoid sourcing aluminum from A...
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Large volumes of climate-warming gases are being smuggled into Europe from China and Turkey, a new investigation has found. The illegal trafficking is compromising the global push to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said this week. These hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), described by the EIA as “super-pollutant”, are a group of synthetic gases that are predominantly used for cooling and refrigeration. Although they do not damage the ozone layer like other banned refrigerants, their impact on global warming can be up to thousands of times greater th...
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In the next couple of years, everyone on Earth will lose a second of time but when exactly this happens is now being influenced by human-driven climate change. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second - called a "negative leap second" - around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday. Without global warming, however, this time change would likely have happened three years earlier in 2026. "This is an unprecedent...
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