Keywords: Climate


Greenland fishers struggle as Arctic warming melts vital sea ice

Fisherman Helgi Áargil says the waters of Greenland’s fjords have become increasingly unpredictable. Last year his boat became trapped in ice that broke away from a nearby glacier. This year the weather has been unusually wet. Some fishing trips bring him around 100,000 Danish kroner, about......

El Niño’s potential 2026 return raises risk of new global heat records

The El Niño climate pattern could reappear in the second half of 2026, adding extra heat on top of an already warming planet and increasing the chance of new global temperature records. The phenomenon develops when surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific turn unusually warm,......

Vatican restores Michelangelo fresco as salt veil is lifted

Michelangelo’s monumental fresco “The Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a new cleaning campaign to strip away a chalky film of salt that has slowly dulled its surface since the last major restoration in the 1990s. Vatican officials recently allowed a small group of......

India likely to experience above-average temperatures in March

India is expected to face higher-than-normal temperatures across most regions during March, following a warmer-than-usual February, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director-general of the IMD, reported that both maximum and minimum temperatures are likely......

Floods: 270 new requests for natural disaster status announced by Laurent Nunez

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced that nearly 270 additional communes in western France have requested recognition as areas affected by a natural disaster following recent flooding events. The requests will be reviewed on 3 and 10 March during an interministerial commission. The floods,......

Invasive species, drought, and climate shocks put global water security at risk

A growing convergence of invasive species, protracted drought, and intensifying climate extremes is placing critical water and food systems in India, Türkiye, and the United States under mounting strain, according to researchers and officials. From parched lakes in southern India to collapsing aquifers......

Climate change drives deadlier Mediterranean winter storms

Human driven climate change has sharply increased the lethality and intensity of winter storms across the western Mediterranean, with recent tempests now about one third more deadly than they would have been in a pre industrial climate, according to an international team of scientists. Their assessment......

Olives: a bountiful harvest revives Morocco’s olive canning industry

Morocco’s olive canning sector is regaining momentum after two campaigns marked by drought. Driven by a national production estimated at nearly two million tonnes, the current season is giving fresh impetus to a strategic sector for the agri-food industry and exports. According to estimates relayed......

Europe’s extreme heat surges tenfold as new metrics expose climate risk

Extreme heat events across Europe have intensified by about a factor of ten in recent decades, as a new study from the University of Graz links this surge directly to human‑driven climate change. Using a novel computation method applied to more than six decades of temperature records, the research......