Top 20 Climate International News
2025-03-14 17:42:29
Here are summaries of top climate news as of March 13-14, 2025:
- NASA reports an "unexpected" rate of sea level rise in 2024 due to record-breaking temperatures.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Trump mass layoffs cause uncertainty among federal firefighting workforce, experts warn that cuts could hamper preparations for this year’s peak fire season.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Argentina mourns 16 killed in floods. Government pledges $9.2m in financial aid for Bahia Blanca.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Wildfires sweep through New York’s Long Island, a state of emergency has been declared.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Cyclone Alfred's deadly winds and heavy rains batter Australia’s east coast, wreaking havoc across Queensland.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Australians told to ‘prepare for worst’ as Cyclone Alfred nears landfall. Violent winds prompt evacuation orders and cut off electricity to 80,000 homes across Queensland and New South Wales.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Cyclone Alfred lashes parts of eastern Australia, bringing rains, waves. Slow-moving storm likely to make landfall on Friday or early Saturday, but winds already trigger power disruptions.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Indonesia deploys cloud seeding to curb Jakarta floods. Cloud seeding aims to steer rainfall away from flood-hit areas or limit the formation of heavier downpours.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Japan deploys 2,000 firefighters to tackle worst forest blaze in decades. About 4,600 residents remain under evacuation advisories as the fire rages in the northern Iwate region, killing one.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - India avalanche rescue operation ends as eighth and final body found. More than 50 workers submerged under snow and debris after an avalanche hit a construction camp in Uttarakhand state.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - UN biodiversity talks resume with dispute over funding topping the agenda. Annual conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year resumes in Rome with nations sparring over money.
Source: www.aljazeera.com - Farmers must be at the heart of biodiversity action, that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Director-General on Tuesday to delegates attending the latest round of UN biodiversity talks in Rome.
Source: news.un.org - UN environment agency calls for urgent action on ‘triple planetary crisis’, warning that progress on all fronts remains slow and uneven.
Source: news.un.org - It’s official: January was the warmest on record, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, citing data crunched by UN partner the Copernicus Climate Service.
Source: news.un.org - At Davos, Guterres slams backsliding on climate commitments, the world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres.
Source: news.un.org - Climate emergency: 2025 declared international year of glaciers, As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.
Source: news.un.org - Confirmed: 2024 was the hottest year on record, says UN weather agency, UN weather experts from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the hottest year on record, at 1.55 degrees Celsius (C) above pre-industrial temperatures.
Source: news.un.org - UN chief offers condolences amid devastating wildfires in California, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed sorrow over the fast-moving wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area, claiming lives and displacing thousands.
Source: news.un.org - 2024 to become the hottest year on record, capping a decade of unprecedented heat fuelled by human activities, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Source: news.un.org - The climate crisis: 5 things to watch out for in 2025, The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis in November 2025, when it hosts one of the most significant UN climate conferences in recent years.
Source: news.un.org