An anonymous reader shares a report: For two weeks in June, Nawshin Khan, a marketing and content management strategist at Dhaka-based outsourcing firm Datacrete, struggled to stay awake and alert at work. As Bangladesh experienced its longest heatwave…

Temperatures are sizzling across Europe this week amid an intense and prolonged period of heat. And it’s only just begun. From a report: Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland are all facing a major heatwave with air temperatures expected to climb to…

The color of the ocean has changed significantly over the last 20 years and human-caused climate change is likely responsible, according to a new study. From a report: More than 56% of the world’s oceans have changed color to an extent that cannot be e…

Nine days ago the U.S. government released a report on the advantages of studying “scientific and societal implications” of “solar radiation modification” (or SRM) to explore its possible “risks and benefits…as a component of climate policy.”

The r…

Equuleus42 (Slashdot reader #723) shares the Washington Post’s article on “the latest evidence of the pervasiveness of ‘forever chemicals’.”

A new study from the United States Geological Survey estimates that these 12,000 “PFAS” contaminants “taint …

Monday was Earth’s hottest day in at least 125,000 years — and Tuesday was hotter.

The Washington Post reports that the director of Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has a term for it: “uncharted territory.”

It’s not just that records…

The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control,” as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record. From a report: “If we persist in delayin…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking h…