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As Earth’s climate changes, it is impacting extreme weather across the planet. Record-breaking heat waves on land and in the ocean, drenching rains, severe floods, years-long droughts, extreme wildfires, and widespread flooding during hurricanes are all becoming more frequent and more intense.
In many places around the world, extreme weather events are becoming stronger, and happening more often, due to climate change. This trend is likely to continue unless countries make steep cuts...
Climate change is causing the weather around the world to get more extreme, and scientists are increasingly able to pinpoint exactly how the weather is changing as the Earth heats up. A...
There has been a “staggering rise” in the number of extreme weather events over the past 20 years, driven largely by rising global temperatures and other climatic changes, according to a new report from the United Nations.
The year 2021 has seen a flurry of extreme events around the globe. Among the many that have captured headlines so far this year: Devastating flooding in Australia, Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Northeast. California’s massive Dixie Fire, now the state’s second largest on record.
From Afghanistan to Central America, droughts, flooding and other extreme weather events are hitting those least equipped to recover and adapt Ecosystems – including terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems – and the services they provide, are affected by the changing climate.
Extreme weather events - including powerful heat waves and devastating floods - are now the new normal, says the World Meteorological Organisation.