An annotated map of the world plotted with the most significant climate events of August 2024. Credit: NOAA Headquarters August 2024 was Earth’s hottest August in NOAA’s 175-year climate record. The sweltering month was also the 15th month in a row of record-warm months, and wrapped up the Northern Hemisphere’s warmest meteorological summer on record
Sarah Neggazi holds a sign that reads “this is a climate emergency” during a demonstration at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health. Under a brown
Extreme weather has struck across the planet this year. Climate change poses an “existential threat” to life on Earth, prominent scientists warned Tuesday, in an assessment on this year’s avalanche of heat records and weather extremes that they said are hitting more ferociously than expected. With expectations that 2023 will be the hottest year on