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Greek authorities have taken a public protection decision: in the context of a severe heat wave affecting the entire country, the Acropolis in Athens will close during the hottest hours of the day. The decision comes amid an increased risk of...

June 2025 was marked by record-breaking heat waves in many regions of the globe, showing once again how severe and rapidly the effects of global warming are intensifying. According to an analysis by AFP based on data from the European Union's...

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...

Europe is currently experiencing a new extreme heatwave, wreaking havoc from Paris to Athens, testing the limits of infrastructure, ecosystems and emergency systems. Record temperatures, sometimes exceeding 40 degrees Celsius, have led to loss of...

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 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...

Un val de căldură calificat drept „extrem de periculos” a cuprins o bună parte a Statelor Unite, expunând aproximativ 160 de milioane de locuitori unor temperaturi sufocante care se apropie de 40 de grade Celsius. Potrivit...

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...

Un val de căldură record a provocat, în perioada 15-21 mai 2025, o topire a calotei glaciare din Groenlanda de 17 ori mai rapidă decât media istorică, avertizează reţeaua ştiinţifică World Weather Attribution (WWA), într-un nou raport citat de...

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...

Spania se pregăteşte pentru un episod de caniculă excepţională, cu temperaturi care ar putea depăşi 40 de grade Celsius în sudul ţării, a avertizat Agenţia Naţională de Meteorologie (AEMET). Potrivit specialiştilor, valorile prognozate în jurul...

Spain is preparing for an episode of exceptional heatwave, with temperatures that could exceed 40 degrees Celsius in the south of the country, the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET) warned. According to specialists, the values forecasted...

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...

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...

Europe faced the most extensive floods in the last decade in 2024, with 30% of the continent's hydrographic network affected. According to a joint report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization...

Greece is experiencing extreme temperature swings, with a record heat wave for March followed by frost and snowfall. Last week, the city of Livadia (central Greece) reached 31.4°C, the highest temperature ever recorded in March in Greece,...

Rio de Janeiro se confruntă cu un val de căldură neobişnuit, cu temperaturi care depăşesc 40 de grade Celsius, în contextul pregătirilor pentru celebrul carnaval, programat între 28 februarie şi 8 martie. La începutul săptămânii, metropola...

Rio de Janeiro is experiencing an unusual heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius, in the context of preparations for the famous carnival, scheduled between February 28 and March 8. Earlier this week, the Brazilian metropolis...

The year 2024 was marked by economic-financial and socio-political convulsions, which accentuated Romania's vulnerabilities in the face of domestic and international challenges. From the alarming budget deficit to the uncontrolled increase in...

The second half of 2024 represented a critical turning point for Romania's economy and political stability. In an attempt to counter the ever-expanding budget deficit and ensure macroeconomic balance, the government implemented a series of...

Artificial intelligence is also proving very efficient in the field of meteorology. Google has developed an Artificial Intelligence system capable of forecasting the weather for a period of 15 days and with unprecedented accuracy, thus saving...

Water shortages or excesses are causing major problems for people. Record-breaking global droughts are becoming "the new norm" forcing world leaders to "radically rethink" how they manage them, the UN warned, publishing a global...

One of the main holiday destinations for Romanians, Greece, has faced major challenges this year. The country faced in 2024 the "most difficult year from a climate point of view in the last 40 years'', a year during which vegetation...

Trimestrul al treilea al acestui an a fost unul marcat de o serie de provocări majore pentru economia României. Temperaturile ridicate din timpul verii au condus la un consum energetic sporit, iar Guvernul a luat măsuri drastice ca să acopere...

The third quarter of 2024 was marked by a series of major challenges for Romania's economy. High summer temperatures have led to increased energy consumption, and the government has taken drastic measures to cover energy needs, including the...

In the face of increasingly frequent and devastating climate threats, an innovative and simple solution is gaining ground: the rapid transfer of money to affected populations via mobile phone. Instead of waiting for a disaster to strike, this...

Ocean warming, considered a crucial indicator of climate change, has accelerated significantly since 2005, a new report from Europe's Copernicus Observatory shows. More than a fifth of the world's ocean surface has been affected by...

• "We can expect the stabilization trend on the operational side of OMV Petrom to continue in the second half of 2024" 

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

Confirmation of the weather records set this hot summer is coming from several directions. Last month was the hottest July on record and marked the 14th consecutive monthly temperature record, according to a US agency. 2024 currently has a 77%...

The middle of the calendar summer constituted a real challenge for the national energy system, in view of the increase in electricity consumption due to a prolonged period of 10 consecutive hot days, when temperatures of over 40 degrees in the...

Temperature records are no longer uncommon, but they must be marked. July 2024 was the hottest month ever recorded in China since the beginning of meteorological measurements, Chinese state media announced, as the heat wave affects several areas...

Wildfires are spreading more and more across the globe. Spain entered this unwanted map. Hundreds of firefighters assisted by water-bombing aircraft are struggling to bring under control two wildfires that have been raging in eastern Spain since...

Heatwave and pollution leave their mark on the current edition of the Olympic Games. The first problems started to appear, and here it is not only a matter of thermal discomfort, but also of the postponement of some tests. The thermometers...

The heatwave during this month showed the limits of the national energy system, limits that the Government seeks to solve with firefighting measures, which energy experts claim are only valid in the short term and do not solve the systemic...

Tourism is facing problems related to the heat wave and its effects. Greece, a country that fears devastating fires this summer, has already suffered "more than twice as many" fires in June than in the same month of 2023 due to...

Humanity is simmering this summer. Temperature records fall one after another. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded, the EU's climate change monitoring service announced. This continues a series of exceptional temperatures that,...

The favorite holiday destination of many Europeans, Greece did not escape the curse of fires this year either. Despite the measures there are still problems. Violent wildfires that broke out in the suburbs of Athens on Sunday "are under...