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Is climate change to blame for the California wildfires?

Climate scientist say warming temperatures and droughts are making wildfires more frequent and intense.

Al Jazeera

Climate Change Brought Extreme Weather, Heat In 2024: UN

Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the United Nations said on Monday, urging the world to pull back from the "road to ruin".

International Business Times

Decade of deadly heat ends with record year as world warned of ‘road to ruin’

The top ten 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years

The Independent UK

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Record year caps ‘decade of deadly heat’, says UN in climate warning

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres the world must ‘exit this road to ruin’ in his new year message.

Evening Standard

Fossil fuel rise drives planet closer to critical climate safety limit

The world is on track to deplete its remaining carbon budget within six years, pushing global temperatures beyond the 1.5C threshold, a major international study has found.

Radio France Internationale

Trump’s election leaves Coalition bursting with ideas

Liberals and Nationals are scrambling over themselves to roundly adopt or reject Trumpist policies, and this year is (once again) set to be the hottest on record.

Crikey

Starmer to tell Cop29 that climate transition offers huge investment opportunity

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to tell the nearly 100 other delegations in Baku that Britain is returning to ‘responsible international engagement’.

Evening Standard

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UN climate talks start as experts warn 2024 is heading for record heat

Sir Keir Starmer is among the leaders heading to Baku, Azerbaijan, for the conference.

The Independent UK

Paris Agreement Climate Goals 'In Great Peril', Warns UN

The Paris climate agreement's goals "are in great peril" and 2024 is on track to break new temperature records, the United Nations warned Monday as COP29 talks opened in Baku.

International Business Times

2024 set to be hottest year on record as temperatures breach 1.5C threshold

This year is on track to beat 2023’s record heat, the World Meteorological Organisation said

Evening Standard

Cop29: Key questions about the UN climate conference

The meeting kicks off against a backdrop of deadly weather events, extreme conditions and record temperatures in recent months.

Evening Standard

2024 on track for hottest year on record as humanity ‘torching planet’, UN warns

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says international datasets show 2024 outstripping 2023’s record heat.

The Independent UK

"Alarm bells" over greenhouse gases

The temperature increases could spiral out into a "vicious cycle," experts say

Salon

First Thing: Harris seeks to rally youth vote in Michigan

Democratic presidential candidate campaigns in university city of Ann Arbor as polls show state on knife-edge

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Radio France Internationale

Record greenhouse gas levels lock in decades of global warming

Record-breaking levels of greenhouse gases were recorded in the Earth's atmosphere in 2023 – reaching concentrations not seen for millions of years, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warned on Monday.

International Business Times

Carbon Cuts 'Miles Short' Of 2030 Goal: UN

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, the UN warned on Monday, with countries falling "miles short" of what is needed to curb devastating global warming.

The Guardian - UK

Planet-heating pollutants in atmosphere hit record levels in 2023

Carbon dioxide concentration has increased by more than 10% in just two decades, reports World Meteorological Organization

LiveScience

What's the fastest recorded wind speed?

Wind can whip up to surprising speeds, depending on if it's natural or human made.

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The Independent UK

Greenhouse gas concentrations surged to new record last year, UN experts warn

The World Meteorological Organisation said CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than any time experienced during human existence.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: One year after the 7 October attacks

As Israel mourns those killed one year ago today, attacks on Lebanon and Gaza continue. Plus: the aftermath of Hurricane Helene

Top News

2023: Driest Year In Decades, Threatening Global Water Security

Learn about the unprecedented dry spell in 2023, impacting global rivers and glaciers due to record-high temperatures and posing severe water security threats.

The Independent UK

The world's rivers faced the driest year in three decades in 2023, the UN weather agency says

The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world’s rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned the drying up of water flows and contributed to prolonged droughts in many places

The Guardian - UK

Climate warning as world’s rivers dry up at fastest rate for 30 years

World Meteorological Organization says water is ‘canary in the coalmine of climate change’ and calls for urgent action

The Independent UK

Ski resorts warn they face ‘existential threat’ from climate crisis

Skiing body joins forces with UN to address ‘bleak future’ of winter sports

Fortune

Europe's ski resorts face 'existential crisis' from climate crisis

The level at which snow settles is set to rise by up to 650 meters in the coming decades, threatening resorts like Verbier and Courchevel.

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