The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said on Friday that the La Nina weather pattern will strengthen from mid-2016, citing data from the country's weather agency. "Rain volume during 2016 will increase, causing floods and landslides," said Sutopo Nugroho, spokesman of BNPB. La Nina is a cooling of the tropical …
Global temperatures in 2016 are likely to be as warm or even warmer than in 2015, which will be the warmest on record, Britain’s Met Office said on Thursday. The weather forecasters said global mean temperatures in 2016 are expected between 0.72 and 0.96 degrees Celsius above the long term …
2016 is set to be the warmest year ever recorded, according to a forecast issued by the UK Met Office on Thursday. Climate change and the peaking of the El Niño weather phenomenon are expected to drive the global average temperature next year above the record now certain to be …
Why is it so warm this winter? It could have something to do with El Niño. Scientists have announced that the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98 is currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific and could be bringing rainy conditions to California and drought to tropical areas. Due to …
Keep an eye on children's water intake, carry a water bottle wherever you go and avoid travel in the hottest part of the day – that's the advice of QUT health statistician Associate Professor Adrian Barnett as we move into an El Niño weather pattern predicted to be the strongest …
At mid-December, skies in Lima continue to be draped with gloomy clouds and heavy humidity. When can locals expect a turn-around into summer? Summer officially begins on Dec. 21 and the National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru (Senamhi) told El Comercio that they expect the cloudy skies and light …
This year’s El Niño event is shaping up to be one of the strongest in recorded history, and its effects are making themselves apparent across the globe in the form of droughts, floods and changes in local weather patterns. A less talked-about consequence of warm ocean temperatures, however, is their …
The "super-charged" El Nino weather system could leave 4.7 million people across the Pacific with widespread hunger, thirst and disease if the global community doesn't urgently act as drought and erratic frosts grip the region. El Nino weather phenomena are driven by warm sea surface water temperatures in the eastern …
A dock stands dry on drought-stricken Donner Lake near Truckee, California, December 4, 2015. An El Nino is forecasted for California, and regular precipitation has been welcomed after years of drought. Picture taken December 4. Photo: Max Whittaker A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said the El Nino weather …
Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday that the El Nino weather phenomenon is at its peak now and there is a strong possibility it would stretch into spring but weather would return to normal by summer. The El Nino, or a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, typically leads …
In Buffalo, it hasn't snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during what's already the third-wettest December in local history. What's going on with the weather? It's the phenomenon called El …
The current El Nino is near its peak intensity, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday, and the weather event is showing some signs of easing. Sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean remain near record levels, the bureau said, indicating that the 2015 El Nino will be the …
A key monthly indicator for El Niño has reached a level not seen since 1997, according to the U.S. weather agency, when the weather pattern caused heavy rains and flooding in parts of South America and severe drought hit crops in Indonesia. El Niño, the "little boy," is driven by …
One of the strongest El Ninos and the onslaught of global warming have put Hong Kong on course for its hottest year on record. The summer has already gone down in the books as the hottest since the Observatory began records in 1884, with the mercury on August 8 clocking …
A climate condition that has reinforced the impact of an El Nino weather event in recent months has broken down over the past fortnight, but a strong El Nino persists, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday. A positive Indian Ocean Dipole - a difference in sea surface temperatures between two …
The sun can erupt with flares more energetic than 30 billion times the yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated. The energetic particles released by solar flares tunnel a path through our inner solar system with speeds regularly exceeding 6 million kph. If the Earth is unfortunate enough to sweep …
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global average surface temperatures in 2015 were likely to reach what it called the "symbolic and significant milestone" of 1° Celsius above the pre-industrial era. "This is due to a combination of a strong El Niño and human-induced global warming," the WMO said in …
A fog of suffocating smoke settles over the Indonesian countryside, sickening hundreds of thousands of people and triggering an environmental crisis. In Peru, officials abandon plans to host the lucrative Dakar Rally and prepare instead for torrential rains and devastating floods. And in Ethiopia, crops perish for lack of seasonal …
With just a month and a half left in 2015, it’s clear this year will be by far the hottest on record, easily beating the previous record set just last year. The temporary slowdown in the warming of global surface temperatures (also misnamed the “pause”) has ended, as each of …
Sydney will most likely endure scorching temperatures into the 40s on Friday as powerful westerlies blowing from Australia's red hot centre block cooling sea breezes. The Bureau of Meteorology has revised higher its forecasts for both Thursday and Friday by a couple of degrees, and is now predicting a top …
