HEATWAVE
Dacca (AFP) - Des milliers de fidèles musulmans ont prié pour la pluie mercredi dans les mosquées et les campagnes du Bangladesh où sévit une vague de chaleur extrême qui a incité les autorités à fermer les écoles. Les températures ont atteint plus de 42°C la semaine dernière dans ce pays. Selon les services météorologiques nationaux, les températures maximales moyennes dans la capitale Dacca cette semaine ont été de 4 à 5 degrés Celsius supérieures à la moyenne des 30 dernières années sur la même période. "Avril est généralement le mois le plus chaud au Bangladesh. Mais ce mois d'avril a été ...
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Australia’s weather bureau has said the El Niño weather event has now ended as temperatures appear to have “cooled substantially” in the last week. The naturally occurring phenomenon began in June last year bringing warmer waters to the surface of the Pacific Ocean. March was the tenth month in a row where the world set a new monthly record for heat, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. While climate scientists attribute most of the heat to human-caused climate change, they say the consecutive records aren’t exactly surprising given the strong El Niño conditions. Temperatur...
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For most people, deciphering the impact of rising temperatures on their everyday lives isn’t easy. Global warming of 1.5C or 2C on average is hard to imagine. To try and solve this problem, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with an innovative new way to measure this real-life change and predict its long-term effects. Using data from 50 different climate models, they charted how the number of ‘outdoor days’ in various destinations around the world will go up or down by 2100. These ‘outdoor days’ refer to periods of 24 hours when temperatures are pleasan...
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More than 2.4 billion people around the world are exposed to climate change-related health hazards. A new report from the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO) has found that climate change is already having a serious impact on the health and safety of a “staggering” number of workers in all parts of the world. It estimates that more than 70 per cent of the world’s 3.4 billion workers are likely to be exposed to excessive heat at some point during their work. The figures from 2020, the last year for which data is available, are up from two decades ago when it was 65.5 per cent. Climate ...
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Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organisations reported on Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity. The latest five-year averages show that temperatures in Europe are now running 2.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, compared to 1.3C higher globally, a joint report published Monday by the UN's World Meteorological Organization and the European Union's climate agency, Copernicus, said. “Europe saw yet another year of increasing temper...
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Climate change could be causing a concerning uptick in the number of cockroach infestations in Spain - as well as alterations to their genetic makeup. So far this year, Spanish authorities have reported a significant rise in infestations - up by 33 per cent compared to the rate in 2023. Experts say record hot temperatures are to blame for these ‘mutant’ cockroaches. Increased heat means the pests’ metabolic cycles accelerate - and it’s particularly evident in the Germanic cockroach. That’s a worry as that variety is prevalent in homes and food-related businesses. Hotter-than-average temperatur...
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Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, top reef scientists declared on Monday, a result of warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change. Coral reef bleaching across at least 53 countries, territories or local economies has been confirmed from February 2023 to now, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and International Coral Reef Initiative said. It happens when stressed coral expel the algae that are their food source and give them their colour. If the bleaching is severe and long-lasting, the coral can...
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Sperm counts are at risk of dropping as the planet heats up, according to a team of scientists. Reproductive cells are already known to be affected by heat, but the findings from researchers in Singapore give more detailed insights into how climate change could impact fertility rates. Men who were exposed to extreme heat in the three months prior to providing a semen sample had a 46 per cent higher chance of a low sperm count, they found. The risk of a low sperm concentration also shot up by 40 per cent, and the ‘little swimmers’ were notably more sluggish. Do organic farms cause unintended ha...
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Fencing in the Grand Palais, show jumping in the Palace of Versailles and basketball on Place de la Concorde — there’s no doubt the Paris Olympics will have an air of the "wow factor". In just four months' time, we’ll see the French capital bursting at the seams with spectators flocking for 16 days of games, across 35 venues in the city. Despite concerns over whether the public transport system is fit for purpose, the 2024 Olympics claims it will be "the greenest in history". Spearheaded by mayor Anne Hidalgo’s sustainable vision for Paris, the aim is to reduce by more than half the carbon emi...
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Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe - and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study has found. Since 1979, global heat waves are moving 20 per cent more slowly - meaning more people stay hot longer - and they are happening 67 per cent more often, according to a study in Friday's Science Advances. Scientists also found the highest temperatures in the heat waves are warmer than 40 years ago and the area under a heat dome is larger. Studies have shown heat waves worsening before - but this one is more ...
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