This year will be warmest in more than 170 years, WMO confirms in report launched at COP28

Libya Medicane, Cyclone Freddy, accelerating Antarctic sea ice loss and rising sea levels caused as due to intense warming in first 10 months of 2023

Cyclone Freddy travelled from Australia to batter Madagascar, one of the most climate-vulnerable nations

The world’s fourth-largest island is suffering a drought since 2018; cyclones and also the first famine caused by climate change

The cyclone that lived longest: How Freddy broke all kinds of records

It killed 140 people across Madagascar, Mozambique & Malawi, where it caused torrential rainfall, flooding & landslides

Long live Freddy: Cyclone which travelled across Indian Ocean, has survived for 32 days courtesy climate change

Warming due to human-induced greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans, increasing their heat content; this helps strengthen cyclones

African cities and climate change: The real debate is who should pay to fix the problem

Re-balancing the carbon equation so African cities urbanise sustainably requires immediate and major investments in infrastructure