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Image of the day: The smallest Antarctic ozone hole in five yearsNews

Image of the day: The smallest Antarctic ozone hole in five years

The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole closed on 1 December, earlier than in any year since 2019, and stood out as both smaller and shorter-lived than…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJanuary 15, 2026 Full article
Image: Annual surface air temperature anomalies for the Arctic region (north of 40°N) for each year from 2002 to 2025, relative to the average for the 1991–2020 reference period
2025 ranked as third hottest yearNewsFacts

2025 ranked as third hottest year

Global temperatures remained near historic highs in 2025, making it the third hottest year ever recorded and extending a run of exceptional warmth that now…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJanuary 14, 2026 Full article
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Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025Climate

Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025

Brest, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, an international team of scientists said Friday, further…
SourceSourceJanuary 9, 2026 Full article
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German emissions cuts slow, North Sea has warmest year on recordNews

German emissions cuts slow, North Sea has warmest year on record

Frankfurt, Germany | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Germany's greenhouse gas emission cuts slowed sharply in 2025 as the North Sea experienced its warmest year on record,…
SourceSourceJanuary 7, 2026 Full article
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Regional temperature records broken across the world in 2025FactsNews

Regional temperature records broken across the world in 2025

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDeskRecords shattered in Central Asia Up to 1.5 °C hotter in the Sahel Scorching summer in Europe Central Asia, the…
SourceSourceDecember 31, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: November 2025, the third warmest on recordFactsNews

Image of the day: November 2025, the third warmest on record

The November 2025 temperature map brings attention to a month that ranked as the third-warmest November on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskDecember 10, 2025 Full article
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World’s fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025: studyClimate

World’s fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that…
SourceSourceNovember 13, 2025 Full article
Image: This visualisation, based on C3S data, shows surface air temperature anomalies across parts of the Northern Hemisphere
Image of the day: October 2025 stands among the warmest on recordFacts

Image of the day: October 2025 stands among the warmest on record

October 2025 ranked as the third-warmest October ever recorded, continuing a run of exceptional global warmth that has marked recent years. According to the ERA5…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskNovember 11, 2025 Full article
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Antarctic glacier retreats 8 km in two months, fastest in modern historyClimate

Antarctic glacier retreats 8 km in two months, fastest in modern history

Researchers trace Hektoria Glacier’s rapid collapse to its unstable ice plain, revealing how bedrock shape can trigger sudden Antarctic ice loss Summary: Hektoria Glacier on…
SourceSourceNovember 5, 2025 Full article
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Vietnam city sees record 1.7 m rainfall in 24 hours: environment ministryNews

Vietnam city sees record 1.7 m rainfall in 24 hours: environment ministry

Hanoi, Vietnam | AFP The central Vietnamese city of Hue recorded more than a metre of rainfall in a 24-hour period, smashing a national record set…
SourceSourceOctober 28, 2025 Full article
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Australian Murray cod wallops swim recordNews

Australian Murray cod wallops swim record

Sydney, Australia | AFP An Australian freshwater Murray cod has surprised scientists by swimming a marathon 860 kilometres (530 miles) along a major river system --…
SourceSourceOctober 27, 2025 Full article
Image: September 2025 was the third-warmest September on record globally
Image of the day: Global temperatures stay near record highs in September 2025FactsNews

Image of the day: Global temperatures stay near record highs in September 2025

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reports that September 2025 was the third-warmest September ever recorded globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskOctober 13, 2025 Full article
Image: Surface air temperature during August 2025 heatwave (8–18 August), Europe
Image of the day: August 2025, the third-warmest August on record globallyFactsNews

Image of the day: August 2025, the third-warmest August on record globally

August 2025 was the third-warmest August ever measured worldwide, according to the latest Climate Bulletin from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Global surface air…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskSeptember 9, 2025 Full article
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Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on recordNews

Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record

Tokyo, Japan | AFP Japan and South Korea sweltered this year through the hottest summers since records began, their weather agencies said Monday. Temperatures the world…
SourceSourceSeptember 1, 2025 Full article
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Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35°C or moreNews

Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35°C or more

Tokyo, Japan | AFP Tokyo experienced a record 10 consecutive days of temperatures 35°C or above, the weather office said Wednesday, after the country sweltered through…
SourceSourceAugust 27, 2025 Full article
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Iraq announces nationwide power outage amid ‘record’ heatNews

Iraq announces nationwide power outage amid ‘record’ heat

Baghdad, Iraq | AFP Iraq on Monday announced a nationwide power outage as rising temperatures pushed demand on the electricity grid to unprecedented levels. The electricity…
SourceSourceAugust 11, 2025 Full article
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Turkey reports hottest July in 55 yearsNews

Turkey reports hottest July in 55 years

Ankara, Turkey | AFP Turkey recorded its hottest July in 55 years, the environment ministry said Saturday. Temperatures recorded in 66 of the country's 220 weather…
SourceSourceAugust 9, 2025 Full article
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Third-hottest July on record wreaks climate havocFactsNews

Third-hottest July on record wreaks climate havoc

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures, but many regions were devastated by extreme weather amplified…
SourceSourceAugust 7, 2025 Full article
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Hong Kong records highest daily rainfall in August since 1884: ObservatoryNews

Hong Kong records highest daily rainfall in August since 1884: Observatory

Hong Kong, China | AFP Hong Kong on Tuesday recorded its highest daily rainfall in August since 1884, the city's weather observatory said, after the highest-tier…
SourceSourceAugust 5, 2025 Full article
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Lightning megaflash of 829 kilometres sets new world recordNews

Lightning megaflash of 829 kilometres sets new world record

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday -- a lightning megaflash that…
SourceSourceJuly 31, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: June 2025 breaks heat records across western EuropeFacts

Image of the day: June 2025 breaks heat records across western Europe

Western Europe endured its warmest June on record in 2025, with temperatures driven to extreme levels by back-to-back heatwaves and unusually warm seas. Data from…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 11, 2025 Full article
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South-West Pacific faces rising seas, record heat: WMO reportClimate

South-West Pacific faces rising seas, record heat: WMO report

Unprecedented Ocean warming engulfed the South-West Pacific in 2024, harming ecosystems and economies, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
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‘Red alert’: Fires drive tropical forest loss to record highNews

‘Red alert’: Fires drive tropical forest loss to record high

Paris, France | AFP Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed last…
SourceSourceMay 21, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: April 2025 ranks as second warmest April ever recorded globallyFacts

Image of the day: April 2025 ranks as second warmest April ever recorded globally

April 2025 continued an unrelenting streak of high global temperatures, becoming the second warmest April ever recorded, according to the latest Climate Bulletin from the…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskMay 14, 2025 Full article