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Spain is bracing itself for another blistering summer, after two record hot years. Copernicus, the EU’s climate service, says there is an up to 70 per cent chance that this summer will be one of the hottest 20 per cent on record for the country. Last year was the hottest globally since records began, as the world breached the 1.5C global heating limit set by the Paris Agreement for a whole year for the first time. 2022 remains Europe’s hottest year yet, spurred by a significant number of heatwaves, which in Spain claimed around 11,300 lives. To save lives this year, Spain’s Ministry of Health ...
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In parts of Spain, flies are making life hell for residents. Tomiño, a municipality in the province of Pontevedra in the autonomous community of Galicia, has had a sudden influx of common flies. The moment they hatch, they go looking for food and are often attracted to smells from people’s homes. Mayor Sandra González told local news that, while the insects don’t spread disease, they are “deteriorating the psychological health” of the people suffering from the outbreak of pests. She says the situation requires a coordinated response from authorities in the area to tackle the causes behind the ...
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Scientists are urging European governments to take action as climate change takes hold, increasing heat-related deaths across the continent. Europe is the fastest-warming continent with temperatures rising roughly twice the global average, according to recently published reports from the World Meteorological Organisation and the EU's climate agency Copernicus. A group of public health experts and statisticians from institutions across Europe have created models to analyse how temperature extremes can change the risk of mortality based on the effects of climate change over the past two decades....
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Heatwaves have caused school closures for millions of children and triggered health warnings across South and Southeast Asia. Temperature records don’t show the whole story, however, with high humidity making it much harder for people to keep cool. These dangerous conditions increase the chances of exhaustion and heatstroke and can even be deadly. Severe heatwaves have already been blamed for almost three dozen deaths across the region. “Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history,” weather historian Maximiliano Herr...
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Greece’s fire season officially starts in May, but dozens of fires have already been put out over the past month after temperatures began hitting 30 degrees Celsius in late March - considerably higher than previous spikes recorded over the past decade. “It’s actually already summer for us,” said Fire Lieutenant Colonel Ioannis Kolovos during a recent training exercise. “The truth is that the fire season has started prematurely and has been extended over the last five years.” His 10-member elite fire crew from the 1st Wildfire Special Operation Unit bristles with tools needed to hold back fires...
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The Department of Education ordered students in more than 47,000 public schools to study from home due to health risks from record-high temperatures. The Philippines is among the worst affected by the sweltering weather in Southeast Asia.
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Europe’s cities are facing the impacts of climate change ever more regularly and severely. After 2023’s record summer heat, flooding and heatwaves, the need to invest in resilience has never been clearer. A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) has taken stock of adaption across Europe’s urban centres, looking at what actions cities are taking and what is already working. It finds that almost all European cities are using nature-based solutions as their tool of choice to improve resilience. Of the 19,000 climate action plans surveyed, 91 per cent included options like maintaini...
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Europe’s largest reef has welcomed corals bred in a zoo by the World Coral Conservatory project. Gloved divers introduced the corals to the reef at the Royal Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem on Monday, in the hope that they can one day be used to repopulate natural reefs. “This is the first project where we started to keep these corals with a known origin. As we know exactly where they’re coming from, they have the potential to be placed back into the wild," explains Nienke Klerks, a biologist at the zoo in the Netherlands. "So it is very important to keep these corals, as it’s going not very well in th...
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Australia’s weather bureau has said the El Niño weather event has now ended as temperatures appear to have “cooled substantially” in the last week. The naturally occurring phenomenon began in June last year bringing warmer waters to the surface of the Pacific Ocean. March was the tenth month in a row where the world set a new monthly record for heat, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. While climate scientists attribute most of the heat to human-caused climate change, they say the consecutive records aren’t exactly surprising given the strong El Niño conditions. Temperatur...
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For most people, deciphering the impact of rising temperatures on their everyday lives isn’t easy. Global warming of 1.5C or 2C on average is hard to imagine. To try and solve this problem, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with an innovative new way to measure this real-life change and predict its long-term effects. Using data from 50 different climate models, they charted how the number of ‘outdoor days’ in various destinations around the world will go up or down by 2100. These ‘outdoor days’ refer to periods of 24 hours when temperatures are pleasan...
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