Steven Bernard

The world experienced its hottest year in 2023, with "climate records tumbling like dominoes" as the global average temperature reached almost 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the European earth observation agency has said.

The warmest northern hemisphere winter on record was accompanied by unsurpassed sea surface temperatures and unusual drought and rain patterns across the world, the Europe's Earth observation agency said.

If you want to live, dig, goes the adage by which Ukrainian soldiers have lived since Russia's all-out invasion two years ago.

Record sea temperatures over an unprecedented stretch and on land for the tenth month in a row have unnerved climate scientists, driving the global average temperature rise beyond 1.5C since pre-industrial times.

Extreme weather events around the world are expected to continue owing to high concentrations of greenhouse gases, scientists say, after April marked the 11th straight month at a record global average surface temperature

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Political leaders, on the day and over the decades, failed to heed warnings — or issue them as the waters surged