Intense heat waves are causing humanitarian disasters around the world, with India, Mexico, the Middle East and the United States baking under extreme temperatures, with records being broken in all affected regions. In Saudi Arabia, nearly 1,200 Muslim pilgrims participating in the annual Hajj to Mecca have died between June 14 and 19, the resultread more
A combination of rising water temperatures and ebbing El Niño conditions in the Pacific have prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to forecast a potentially record-breaking hurricane season for the North Atlantic, with the expectation of at least 13 hurricanes to form over the season. “This season is lookingread more
Multiple global heat records have been falling in rapid succession as the planetary temperature rises in response to a freshly-emerged El Niño in the equatorial Pacific, with the global average temperature soaring above 17°C (62.6°F) for three consecutive days. The trend started on July 3 when the average global temperatureread more
Despite the massive changes brought about around the world in 2020, one factor has managed to maintain its status quo from the pre-pandemic era: global warming is still on the rise. In terms of being the hottest January-through-June period on record, 2020 is second only to 2016’s El Niño-fueled firstread more