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Hurricane Melissa, the most violent weather event to ever hit Jamaica, is considered by scientists to be a direct product of human-induced climate change. A new study published last week by researchers at Imperial College London shows that a...

September 2025 ranked as the third warmest "ninth month” on record on Earth, according to data published by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Global average temperatures reached 16.11 °C, 1.47 °C above the pre-industrial...

Thousands of people chose to escape the sweltering heat in Shanghai, where temperatures soared to 37 degrees Celsius, by taking refuge in one of the world's largest indoor ski resorts. According to Reuters, the Shanghai L+SNOW complex, which...

Direcţia Generală de Meteorologie din Maroc (DGM) a anunţat luni că oraşul Laayoune, situat în Sahara Occidentală, a înregistrat un record istoric de temperatură pentru luna august: 49,2 grade Celsius. Valoarea a depăşit precedentul record, de 47...

The extreme temperatures recorded in recent days confirm an increasingly worrying phenomenon: the multiplication and intensification of heatwaves in Europe, a direct effect of climate change, according to scientists. The continent is warming...

The vast and mysterious universe seems eternal to human perception. However, a new theoretical study recently published proposes a shorter timeline: just 10 billion years until the current expansion stops, and the universe will begin to contract....

The climate crisis is one of the greatest and most complex challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Although warning signs have been emerging for some time, the pace and scale of change have become alarming in recent years, affecting all...

Surface temperatures in the regions surrounding the Greek capital rose by up to 10 degrees Celsius in just one year as a result of devastating forest fires in the summer of 2024, according to a study published by the National Observatory of...

Climate change does not affect all population groups equally. According to a report published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), older people are at particularly high risk, especially from extreme heat waves, which are becoming...

The retreat of glaciers due to global warming could intensify volcanic activity in several regions of the world, warns a new study presented at the Goldschmidt 2025 Conference in Prague. According to the research led by Pablo Moreno Yaeger, a...

A group of Chinese researchers has developed an innovative material dubbed "meringue concrete", an ultra-light foam concrete capable of safely stopping aircraft weighing hundreds of tons in the event of emergency landings. The system,...

An extreme heatwave that hit western Europe for 10 days is believed to have caused around 2,300 deaths in 12 major European cities, according to a rapid analysis by researchers at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and...

An intense heatwave is hitting Greece and large parts of Southeastern Europe these days, with temperatures that could reach the dangerous threshold of 42 degrees Celsius, according to a warning sent by the DPA agency. Hot air currents coming from...

A severe and unusual cold wave, even by the standards of the austral winter, has swept Argentina over the past ten days, causing the death of at least nine people and setting a series of historical records for negative temperatures throughout the...

Japan recorded its hottest June on record, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), in a context in which extreme heat waves are becoming more frequent amid accelerating climate change. The monthly average temperature was 2.34°C above...

A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge is testing a new material with potential to revolutionize air conditioning systems: a solid, white, waxy paste with barocaloric properties that could completely replace the greenhouse gas...

A wave of extreme heat has hit southern Europe, setting historic temperature records and triggering emergency measures in several countries, in a context in which authorities are also facing increased risks of forest fires and serious effects on...

Spain has set a new national temperature record for June, with 46 degrees Celsius measured in the town of El Granado, located in the south of the country, close to the border with Portugal. The information was officially confirmed by the Spanish...

A heat wave classified as "extremely dangerous" has swept a large part of the United States, exposing approximately 160 million inhabitants to sweltering temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius. According to the Agence France-Presse...

A record heat wave caused the Greenland ice sheet to melt 17 times faster than the historical average between May 15 and 21, 2025, warns the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA), in a new report cited by AFP. The extreme event also...

The world has recorded another extremely hot month, with oceans and land continuing to reach "unusually high” temperatures, extending an alarming series of climate anomalies that has lasted for more than two years, according to data...

A new scientific study warns of changing global rainfall patterns. Nearly 2 billion people could face significant changes in water availability if the average global temperature rises by 1.5°C, even temporarily, warns a new study published in the...

The global average temperature risks exceeding the critical threshold of +1.5°C in the next five years, warns a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), carried out in collaboration with the Met Office in the United Kingdom....

Emiratele Arabe Unite au înregistrat săptămâna trecută un record istoric de temperatură pentru luna mai, atingând 50,4 grade Celsius în regiunea Al Shawamekh din emiratul Abu Dhabi. Informaţia a fost transmisă de Centrul Naţional de Meteorologie...

The United Arab Emirates last week recorded a historic temperature record for May, reaching 50.4 degrees Celsius in the Al Shawamekh region of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The information was transmitted by the National Center for Meteorology on the...

Researchers have discovered that teeth could come from sensory organs from 500 million years ago, informs AFP. The sensitivity of human teeth to cold or pain - that discomfort familiar to anyone who has ever bitten into an ice cream - could have...

A study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment warns that sea levels will continue to rise dangerously, testing humanity's resilience until the end of the century and beyond, even in the optimistic scenario in which...

The United Kingdom is experiencing its driest spring since 1956, according to an alarming report published by the British Environment Agency. The severe lack of rainfall in the first months of 2025 has fueled fears of a possible drought in the...

The summer of 2024 was the warmest recorded in Lapland in the last 2,000 years, according to data published by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The region, which includes northern Finland, Norway and Sweden, has recorded record temperatures,...

A new global episode of coral bleaching, spanning more than two years, is wreaking havoc in the world's oceans, affecting approximately 84% of coral reefs - an absolute record in the history of documentation of these phenomena, according to...