Spain sees hottest year on record in 2022
Spain in 2022 experienced the hottest year since records began, the country's national weather service said Monday, adding that several northern cities were also unseasonably warm on New Year's Day 2023.
Spain in 2022 experienced the hottest year since records began, the country's national weather service said Monday, adding that several northern cities were also unseasonably warm on New Year's Day 2023.
Environment
Jan 2, 2023
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Wildfires that scorched across Europe this year burned a record land area and stoked carbon emissions, according to an update released on Tuesday by Europe's forest fire and satellite monitors.
Environment
Dec 13, 2022
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Glacier mass balance is one of the most important parameters characterizing glacier changes. However, the scarcity of glacier mass balance and meteorological data in the glacier area limits our understanding of glacier changes ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 9, 2022
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France this year experienced the hottest year since records began, the country's national weather service said Wednesday, as global warming stokes temperatures globally.
Environment
Nov 30, 2022
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The World Meteorological Organization has published its first State of Global Water Resources report in order to assess the effects of climate, environmental and societal change on the Earth's water resources. The aim of ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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All regions of the world saw water extremes last year—both floods and droughts—and billions of people had insufficient freshwater, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a level many scientists consider a dangerous threshold. Realistically, that's unlikely to happen.
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2022
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The central objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit Earth's warming to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels, but preferably 1.5 C.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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It was 1 a.m. on Nov. 12, in a crowded meeting room on the outskirts of the COP27 climate conference complex in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. As co-chair of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), I joined representatives from ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2022
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The rainfall model that engineers use to help them design critical infrastructure such as large dams and nuclear power plants needs to be updated to take into account climate change.
Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2022
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