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The climate phenomenon known as El Niño - and not climate change - was a key driver in low rainfall that disrupted shipping at the Panama Canal last year, scientists said Wednesday. A team of international scientists found that El Niño, a natural warming of the central Pacific that changes weather worldwide, doubled the likelihood of the low precipitation Panama received during last year's rainy season. That dryness reduced water levels at the reservoir which feeds freshwater to the Panama Canal and provides drinking water for more than half of the Central American country. Human-caused climat...
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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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Last month was the hottest March on record, becoming the tenth record-breaking month in a row, scientists have said. The global air temperature was 0.73°C above the 1991-2020 average for March, according to the EU’s climate service, and 0.10°C above the previous high set in March 2016. It marks the tenth consecutive month where temperatures have been hotter than ever recorded for the respective time of year, after February also broke the old record by a tenth of a degree. “March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records toppling for both air temperature and ocean surface temperatures,” sa...
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The Americas have been told to brace for an ‘extremely active’ hurricane season this year. Hurricane researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) in the US are predicting 11 hurricanes in 2024, spurred on by a hotter Atlantic and a switch to ‘La Niña’ conditions. This is the most hurricanes ever predicted by the expert unit since it began issuing an April outlook in 1995. Researchers stress there’s still a high degree of uncertainty about how the season will unfold, but are urging residents along the US coastline and in the Caribbean to prepare. “It takes only one storm near you to make this...
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Cocoa prices briefly surged to all-time highs on Tuesday, touching over $10,000 (€9,234.3) per ton, before settling back at $9,622 per ton on Wednesday morning, following disappointing harvests in key cocoa-producing countries such as Ghana and Ivory Coast. Cameroon, another cocoa-producing nation, has also been seeing much of the same conditions. The crop also saw a 19.8% gain in the past week, as well as a 42.4% rise this month. In the past year, cocoa prices have jumped about 231%. Cocoa is widely used in a number of chocolate products and confectioneries, with by-products such as cocoa nib...
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Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests and quality because of a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by El Niño. From a record harvest of 296 million kilograms (326,000 tons) last year, the country is estimating that production will fall to about 235 million kilograms (259,000 tons) this season, says Patrick Devenish, chairman of the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB), at the official opening event in the capital, Harare. “Most of our tobacco is grown by s...
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This February was the world’s warmest on record, according to new data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). This is the ninth month in a row that temperatures have broken records. It comes after last year was revealed to be the hottest the world has seen since records began. February was around 0.81C above the 1991 to 2020 average for the month and a tenth of a degree warmer than the previous record set back in 2016. The ninth consecutive record-breaking month in a row alone is staggering, but put into perspective it highlights the trend of continued global warming. “Back in ...
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El Niño is starting to dial down - but it’s not over yet, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says. The weather phenomenon that has worsened heatwaves, droughts and heavy rain since last June peaked as one of the five strongest on record in December. There is a 60 per cent chance it will continue to fuel high temperatures and extreme weather events until May, according to WMO. “Every month since June 2023 has set a new monthly temperature record \- and 2023 was by far the warmest year on record,” says WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo. “El Niño has contributed to these record tempera...
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