CLIMATE

Summer of 2024, the hottest on record worldwide

Published on: September 6, 2024
16:29

Brussels, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) The boreal summer of 2024 was the hottest on record worldwide, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), an observatory of the European Union, reported today.

Africa in urgent need of cash for meteorological services

Published on: September 2, 2024
17:09

Geneva, Sep 2 (Prensa Latina) Africa is urgently needing investments in meteorological services and early warning systems, so as to adapt to climate change and build resilience, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today.

Deforestation impacts tropical mountain forests in Africa

Published on: August 21, 2024
00:15

Helsinki, Aug 21 (Prensa Latina) Deforestation of Africa's tropical mountain forests increases temperatures and the cloud base height (CBH), exacerbating the effects of climate change, biodiversity and water supply, it was reported here.

UN Secretary General visits Pacific and East Asia on climate agenda

Published on: August 20, 2024
07:43

United Nations, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) United Nations Secretary General António Guterres will begin a tour of countries in the Pacific and East Asia, focused on the impact of climate change in those regions.

Unprecedented warming threatens Earth’s lakes

Published on: July 15, 2024
14:40

London, Jul 15 (Prensa Latina) Lakes worldwide will likely be the first ecosystems to experience unprecedented warming by 2100 when global temperatures reach about 2.4 degrees Celsius (°C) above pre-industrial conditions, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.

UN to reveal most pressing health and human well-being challenges

Published on: July 15, 2024
08:47

United Nations, Jul 15 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations will publish its global forecast on human health and well-being, which describes critical changes and signals about the need to prepare as the world approaches a polycrisis.

Cuban experts to facilitate analysis of climate impacts

Published on: July 11, 2024
14:53

Havana, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuban experts are working on a national information system on the manifestations of climate change in the agricultural, forestry and other sectors associated with land use, FAO informed on Thursday.

ALBA-TCP agrees on roadmap to create Cooperation Agency

Published on: July 3, 2024
08:18

Caracas, Jul 3 (Prensa Latina) The member States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) agreed on the roadmap to create the Development Cooperation Agency.

Mexican authorities closely follow formation of tropical storm

Published on: June 18, 2024
12:51

Mexico, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Authorities and experts are closely following a disturbance in the southwest of the Gulf of Mexico that might become the first tropical storm of this hurricane season, which began on June 1.

Uruguay quantifies underground waters in anticipation of La Niña

Published on: June 11, 2024
00:46

Montevideo, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) The Ministry of Environment is expecting the arrival of the La Niña phenomenon and its aftermath, particularly drought events.

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