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Global warming. Hello. We start with a developing story from morocco. At least 296 people have been killed and many more injured in a powerful earthquake. Thats according to the countrys interior ministry. The 6. 8 magnitude quake struck in the early hours of saturday morning, localtime. Vision from marrakesh the closest major city to the epicentre shows crowds gathering outside, damaged buildings and piles of rubble lining streets. The quake� s epicentre was in a remote area of the high Atlas...

Governments not even close to meeting climate targets, putting world at risk of catastrophic disasters, says British climate scientist.

The WMO's warning that the 1.5C warming threshold is set to be breached - at least temporarily - hits hard, but the lessons it contains should be obvious by now

Well, it certainly feels on the chilly side today, particularly in the wind. and the sunshine has been somewhat hit and miss today as well. you can see rather a lot of cloud across many central, northern and eastern areas of the country. heres the forecast for this evening. that chilly breeze continues. even one or two showers. the skies will clear, particularly across western and central areas through the course of tonight. so there will be a touch of frost early in the morning. and then these ...

The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study thats more pessimistic than previous modeling.

The entire North Indian belt continued to reel under a severe cold wave condition on Tuesday, with the minimum temperature in Churu, Rajasthan, dropping below 0 degree Celsius.

The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than...

Hitting 1.5C means losing lives, critical ecosystems and food security, IPCC scientist warns.

According to the United States special climate envoy John Kerry, several nations have objected to the mention of a worldwide goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the text of the COP27 summit in Egypt. When asked about opposition by some governments to mentioning the 1.5C target, Kerry said, “You’re absolutely correct. There are very few countries, but a few, that have raised the issue of not mentioning this word or that word.”