GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland 's glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest annual drop on record — due to the effects of global warming, top Swiss glaciologists reported on Wednesday. The shrinkage this year means that ice mass...
As more rains from the enhanced southwest monsoon, or “habagat,” are expected to drench several parts of the Philippines, the chief of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said these persistent downpours may be linked to climate change, which...
Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland 's temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday. The...
Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says. Currently, cold temperatures kill more people in...
FILE - A boat navigates large icebergs near the town of Kulusuk, in eastern Greenland, on Aug. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all...
President Marcos has urged Filipinos to work together to address the threat of global warming and make the country more resilient against climate change. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (File photo) Marcos said this in celebration of the 16th Annual Global Warming and Climate Change...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- The water temperature around the tip of Florida in the United States has hit hot tub levels, and may have set new world record for the warmest seawater, according to US media reports. People lounge on Daytona Beach, Florida, the United States, Sept. 7, 2020. (Xinhua) A...
PARIS, France -- Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest the European Union's climate monitoring unit has ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a "substantial margin", it said on Thursday. The news comes as the El Nino climate phenomenon has officially...
PARIS, France -- Current policies to limit global warming will expose more than a fifth of humanity to extreme and potentially life-threatening heat by century's end, researchers warned Monday. Earth's surface temperature is on track to rise 2.7 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100,...
Cases of heat stroke are rising not only among the vulnerable, but also among young students who are cooped up inside a classroom for hours. The extreme heat these days, exacerbated by global warming where summer becomes more intense, has seen students dehydrated, heat exhausted, and generally...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The past eight years were the hottest since records began, the United Nations confirmed Thursday, despite the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern. Last year, as the world faced a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters made more likely and deadly by...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Half of the Earth's glaciers, notably smaller ones, are destined to disappear by the end of the century because of climate change, but limiting global warming could save others, according to a new study. In this file photo taken on September 21, 2021, an ice block...
