heat waves

Copernicus Climate Change Service Reports Summer 2023 as Hottest Summer on Record

Copernicus Climate Change Service Reports Summer 2023 as Hottest Summer on Record

The Copernicus Climate Change Service has found that June through August of this year had the highest global temperatures for summer on record. Additionally, sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic and globally have reached record highs in summer 2023. The service used data from satellites, weather stations, ships and aircraft around the world, amounting […]

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    Deadly Wildfires Spread Across the Mediterranean

    Deadly Wildfires Spread Across the Mediterranean

    Wildfires are spreading in nine Mediterranean countries, killing dozens of people and causing thousands to evacuate. Heat waves and dry vegetation have created conditions for the wildfires to spread, and the extreme heat has been made more likely because of climate change, scientists say. Algeria has experienced the highest death toll of 34 people, as […]

    July Could Be Earth’s Hottest Month on Record, Climate Expert Warns

    July Could Be Earth’s Hottest Month on Record, Climate Expert Warns

    After the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that last month was the hottest June on record, a climate expert at NASA is now predicting that July could be Earth’s hottest month on record. Gavin Schmidt, director of Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA, warned at a NASA meeting on climate and recent extreme […]

    Heat Waves in Europe Threaten Olive Harvest for Second Consecutive Year

    Heat Waves in Europe Threaten Olive Harvest for Second Consecutive Year

    Olive harvests are expected to face a second challenging year in a row as heat waves threaten crops across Europe. This year’s heat waves arrived a month earlier than the first heat waves of last year’s hot, dry season, according to Earth.org. The first heat wave arrived in late April, following a warmer- and drier-than-usual […]

    Seabird Die-Offs Linked to Marine Heat Waves

    Seabird Die-Offs Linked to Marine Heat Waves

    A new study, led by researchers at the University of Washington, has linked mass seabird die-offs to marine heat waves. The study, published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series, analyzed data collected from residents along coasts from Alaska to central California from 1993 to 2021. The researchers were looking to find if these marine […]

    World Passes Highest Average Global Temperature Recorded

    World Passes Highest Average Global Temperature Recorded

    The average global temperature reached a new high on July 3 at 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest average since records initially began in the 19th century and since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s. July 4 was even hotter, reaching 0.17 degrees Celsius (0.31 degrees Fahrenheit) higher. The high temperatures come after […]

    1.5°C Breached for First Time During Northern Hemisphere Summer

    1.5°C Breached for First Time During Northern Hemisphere Summer

    The Paris Agreement goal of keeping global surface air temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average is starting to fade into the background, climate experts say, as Reuters reported. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), in the beginning of June, average temperatures worldwide climbed above 1.5 degrees Celsius for several days. […]