Ocean heat damage now occurs all year-round, not just in summer
The world’s oceans experienced significant damage throughout the first year in which global temperatures temporarily exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,…
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Last month was the joint-third warmest April on record, says ECMWF
The European Centre for Medium–Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)’s latest Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) report has said that last month…
Climate scientist calls out ‘demonstrably incorrect’ US environmental claims
Professor Benjamin Santer, honorary professor at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and one of the first scientists to identify…
Hydrogen industry will need to address leakage issues ahead of long-term adoption
The hydrogen industry will need to address the potential environmental impacts from leakage, as well as how it interacts with…
Southern hemisphere ozone hole developed early this year, says CAMS
The southern hemisphere ozone hole, located over the Antarctic, developed early this year, reaching an area of approximately 15 million…
Artificially cooling the polar regions could cause irreversible harm, study finds
Artificially cooling the Arctic and Antarctic, a ‘solution’ put forward by some entrepreneurs and think tanks to tackle global warming,…
Duration of heatwaves outpaces that of global warming, study finds
Researchers at UCLA and the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago, Chile, have found that the duration of heatwaves is accelerating…
Air pollution cleanup in Asia likely accelerated global warming, study claims
Efforts to reduce air pollution in Eastern Asia, particularly in China, may have unintentionally accelerated global warming over the past…
January 2025 was the warmest on record
January 2025 was the warmest January on record, globally, with an average surface air temperature of 13.23°C, 0.79°C above the…
Hottest years this century will ‘shatter’ temperature records, study finds
An AI-driven study has suggested that even with rapid decarbonisation, global warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius is inevitable, with the…