Global temperatures for February showed a disturbing and unprecedented upward spike. It was 1.35℃ warmer than the average February during the usual baseline period of 1951-1980, according to NASA data. This is the largest warm anomaly of any […]
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PHOTO: Higher rainfall might not be all that helpful as the warmer temperatures will also increase evaporation, scientists say(Supplied: Nicole Schemionek) Climate change could actually increase rainfall in Australia’s desert regions, according to a new study. Key points: […]
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The world’s climate is already changing. Extreme weather events (floods, droughts, and heatwaves) are increasing as global temperatures rise. While we are starting to learn how these changes will affect people and individual species, we don’t yet know […]
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It’s official: 2015 was the hottest year on record. The US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed overnight that 2015 saw the global average temperature climbing to 0.90°C above the 20th-century average of 13.9°C. The record has […]
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Drought has affected most regions of the globe in the early 21st-century. In Australia, the recent Millennium Drought from 2001 until 2009 was the worst on record and ended dramatically with one of the largest La Niña […]
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This year is likely to be the world’s warmest year on record—probably by a substantial margin—according to theWorld Meteorological Organization’s preliminary global annual climate assessment. The assessment, released on 25 November, reported what has become increasingly apparent over […]
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