WMO highlights socioeconomic impacts of 2023 weather, and climate hazards, intertwined with inequality crisis

Extreme weather events hit many parts of the world in 2023, affecting water and food security as well as human welfare, report by …

Earth’s climate worsened in 2019: WMO report

The decade between 2010-2019 was also the hottest

CO2 levels in atmosphere surged to record levels in 2013, says WMO

Rate of ocean acidification also unprecedented, says UN’s meteorological agency

Oilwell fires

Parched future

Arctic ozone depletion creats panic

Ozone nightmates

Over the next few years, ozone loss is projected to go from to worse

Unusually warm January in Europe; record temperature in many countries: WMO

Conditions caused by warm air from north-west Africa  

One-day temperatures breach 2°C warming point for first time: Report

Breach associated with climate phenomenon El Nino, long-term human-caused climate forcing

2014 warmest year on record

10 warmest years, with the exception of 1998, have occurred since 2000

Counting losses

A new instrument makes the task of monitoring ozone levels easier

Climate Emergency CoP 25: World is hotter than ever before, says WMO

Paris agreement has failed to put brakes on emission rise

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

Increased chance of earth breaching 1.5°C in next five years

One of the years from 2023-2027 could be the warmest ever recorded, warns WMO

Expert bodies suggest measures to fight killer heat waves

Long-term planning, combined with immediate preventive measures, can be the key

Temporary gain

El Nino impact on food security: $160 million needed urgently to support 4.8 million people at risk, says FAO

Releases anticipatory action plan after WMO forecasts El Nino to stay till April 2024

El Nino may remain till April 2024, may push temperatures even higher: WMO

May cause further rise in global average temperatures, more extreme weather events

Ozone crisis

Climate change back in presidential election focus

The superstorm has killed 68 so far in North America

Monsoon 2023: August, September to be drier than normal for most of India, predicts IMD

Rainfall deficit in a third of the districts in the country, may worsen due to El Nino

El Nino may disrupt monsoons

Weather conditions that promote El Nino persistent, says Met department; drought feared

Greenhouse gases emissions at a new high

At peak value of 2°C above average sea surface temperature, 2023-24 El Nino among strongest on record

Climate phenomenon to keep temperatures above normal and influence regional rainfall

2014 may turn out to be hottest year ever

What is particularly unusual and alarming this year are the high temperatures of vast areas of the ocean surface, including in the northern …