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A woman surfs a longboard as the sun sets on a hot day Thursday, July 13, 2023, in Encinitas, Calif. More than a third of Americans are under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) As El Niño conditions settle in — with a more than 90 percent chance of lasting…

Traffic warden Rai Rogers mans his street corner during an 8-hour shift under the hot sun in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 12, 2023, where temperatures reached 106 degrees amid an ongoing heatwave. More than 50 million Americans are set to bake under dangerously high temperatures this week, from California…

Climate Program Office opens 2024 funding opportunity WEBWIRE – Friday, July 14, 2023 The NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) announced today that its Fiscal Year 2024 grant competitions are open.  This year’s notice of funding opportunity consists of six competitions to advance understanding of Earth’s climate system through interdisciplinary, integrated…

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Millions of Americans have been enveloped in throat-scratching smog, have lost their homes and livelihoods in catastrophic floods, and have been facing extreme heat bubbles that have left people collapsing and even dying. Meanwhile, Republicans are working even harder to defund efforts to stop climate change. While most of the…

On July 3, 2023, the Earth experienced its hottest day ever recorded. The average global temperature was measured to be 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Maine. This temperature was recorded two meters above the Earth’s surface. This…

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. PARIS: Monday was the world's hottest day on record, exceeding an average of 17 degrees Celsius (62.6 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time, according to initial measurements taken on Tuesday by US meteorologists. The average daily air temperature on the planet's surface…

CLIMATEWIRE | At a tiny airport in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, a weather station feeds precipitation data to a NOAA program that publishes the official precipitation estimates for most of the United States. NOAA’s precipitation estimates cover almost any U.S. location, and they are crucial to engineers and planners in…

Billions of dollars in federal funding from the Biden administration's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could be wasted because state highway and bridge projects are using an outdated government precipitation model to determine future flood risk, according to a new report from First Street Foundation, a nonprofit climate risk research…

Temperatures are already breaking records this year: Last month was the warmest May for the world’s oceans since record-keeping began in 1850, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The average ocean temperature throughout May was 0.85 degree Celsius higher than normal for the month. For the planet as…