Earth's average temperature for 2025-29 likely to exceed 1.5°C limit: WMO

Summer 2025 forecast calls for 'overwhelmingly above normal' heat starting in June

The summer forecast calls for hotter-than-normal temperatures from coast-to-coast, according to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

A warming planet is poised to get even hotter, forecasters warn

As hot, dry and disastrous as the last few years have been, it appears that the chaos caused by a warming planet is just getting started.

How Soon Should Companies Prepare for a 2°C World?

Look through the new five-year outlook from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and you won’t see the U.N. atmospheric science body use the words “emergency”  or “disaster.” And yet it would be hard for anyone even semi-literate in the science of climate change to flip through it without a sense of urgency and alarm.  The report, released earlier this week, finds that global temperatures will continue at or near record levels with a pos…

German Greens demand climate action after record-dry spring

The draft seen by Euractiv refers to recent forest fires, low water levels of Germany's largest rivers and the health risks of heat for the ageing population.

The temperature map is far too red for a May 30th. This Friday afternoon, it will make more than 30°C in almost the whole country. Records will be broken. In thirty years, the number of days above 30°C has increased from 14 days to 22 in the last five years. Everyone adapts as it can. These early heats already launch the purchases of air conditioning in a store in Nantes. Sales of May have doubled compared to the last few years. (Weather and wea…

Germany is increasingly recording extreme heat days.