climate change A woman walks with cold patches on her forehead and neck amid a red alert for heatwave in Beijing, China. Photo credit: Reuters / Tingshu Wang. By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. Measuring 17.01 degrees C, […]
Photo credit: ITV. By Anders Lorenzen ‘It is a glorious sunny day across the British Isles with forecasts set to stay dry and sunny for the foreseeable future’ or ‘miserable rain continues across the country with no end in sight’. People who frequently watch the weather forecasts might not think there’s anything unusual in these two statements, made by the […]
By Jeremy Williams “We couldn’t keep doing the weather as it’s always been done,” says Alexandre Kara of France Télévisions. “It’s unacceptable to rejoice that it’s 25 degrees in Biarritz in February without explaining why.” With these sorts of concerns in mind, the weather updates on France 2 and 3 are getting a tweak. They’re being renamed as weather and climate […]
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GeoColor imagery taken in the middle of May shows the smoke from wildfires raging in western Canada. Photo credit: NOAA Satellites via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen Wildfires are not a strange phenomenon in Canada. But already, with summer having barely started, this season is predicted to be the worst season for wildfires ever recorded in the country. Canada spans the […]
A displaced girl carrying water. Photo credit: Reuters / Akhtar Soomro. By Anders Lorenzen The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) has reached a record high of 71.1 million people worldwide. The increase was driven by global crises such as the war in Ukraine and the monsoon floods in Pakistan. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), an organisation based in […]
Citizens of Shanghai swelter in early May heat. By Anders Lorenzen As in many other places in the world right now, China is experiencing early and extremely hot weather. In Shanghai, China’s largest city and a key financial hub, Monday (29th of May) last week experienced its warmest May day in 100 years, shattering the previous high by a full […]
Africa Flood damage in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo credit: MONUSCO. By Anders Lorenzen After devastating floods hit the region earlier this month, the full extent of damages and casualties is still to be determined in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo; so far at least 400 people have been killed. This biodiversity-sensitive and […]
A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News. By Aditi Mukherji The heatwave sweeping across Asia has forced schools in India to shut down. With our children already paying a terrible […]
A failed wheat harvest in Ronda, Spain. Photo credit: Reuters / Jon Nazca. By Anders Lorenzen Temperature records have been set in Portugal and Spain, as the region continues to endure early Spring heat. The Iberian peninsula has broken temperature records for April as they swelter in an early-season heatwave which has exacerbated a long drought in some regions. The […]