“Permafrost, which amounts to two thirds of the Russian territory, is a huge natural reservoir of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
“As the Arctic warms and permafrost degrades due to climate change, scientists are concerned that this methane may start leaking into the atmosphere in massive amounts, further exacerbating global warming.”
“A significant melt event is unfolding in Greenland this week.
“With temperatures nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit higher than usual in some areas, the southern part of the ice sheet is melting at its highest rate this season. Forecasts suggest that the melting on Greenland’s South Dome—one of the highest elevations on the ice sheet—may be the strongest for early June since 1950.”
“Dublin had its sunniest month on record in May, with almost 300 hours of sunshine recorded, the national forecaster has said.
“In its monthly climate report, Met Éireann said the Casement Aerodrome station in Co Dublin recorded 293.5 hours of sunshine, the highest ever recorded in its 56-year history.”
“Striking aerial images have revealed how a brimming UK reservoir has been reduced to a small trickle by the recent heatwave.
“Sweltering temperatures have dried out Howden Reservoir in Derbyshire from a full basin to just a shallow stream, peeling back the layer of water and exposing the muddy banks below the surface.”
“After weeks of sunny weather France was hit by violent thunderstorms this week.
“On Thursday morning five départments in the south east of the country – Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse were placed on orange alert for storms.”
“Cyprus experienced the hottest May on record as an extreme week-long heatwave gripped the island pushing temperatures to peak at 44.4° Celsius, the meteorology office data shows.
“As Cyprus prepared to exit lockdown in May, unprecedented hot weather smashed every climate record in the book, from the hottest day for the month to the longest heatwave.”
“Five children were killed in torrential rain in Yemen’s eastern Hadhramaut province, an official told Anadolu Agency.
“The children from one family were killed in the Henin region as they were swept away by torrential rain, according to Abdul Latif Al-Naqeeb, a government official in al-Qatn district.”
“…experts described cyclone Nisarga as the first severe storm to threaten India’s financial capital in more than 70 years.
“Fearing the worst, residents took precautions early on… Meanwhile, cyclone Nisarga, which was supposed to hit the capital and adjoining area with “unusual force,” changed its direction, saving the city from havoc.”
“Almost two weeks after cyclone Amphan barreled through Bangladesh, Red Crescent teams have already reached more than 30,000 people, but thousands more are in need of further humanitarian assistance.
“Cyclone Amphan made landfall in the coasts of West Bengal, India on 20 May 2020, and then entered Bangladesh with wind speeds of up to 150 kmph, heavy rain and tidal surges that caused huge devastation in 26 districts across the country.”
“The severe cyclonic storm which made landfall south of Alibag in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Wednesday at 11.30 am is an indication of an increasing frequency of severe cyclones developing in Arabian Sea in the past decade, a trend that studies have linked to climate change.”
“With the first heat wave advisory issued Thursday, South Korea is expecting this summer to be one of the hottest in decades.
“Sweltering summer heat will likely arrive after the monsoon season, expected late this month, but authorities worry about the weather’s possible impact on the current novel coronavirus outbreak.”
“Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered its most extensive coral bleaching event in March, with scientists fearing the coral recovers less each time after the third bleaching in five years.
“February 2020 was the hottest month on record since records began in 1900, Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, told Reuters.”
“Cristobal has already set records in the Atlantic basin. It became the earliest-ever third named tropical storm to form in any Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history on Tuesday…
“Typically, the third named storm does not brew until much later in the season, occurring on average around Aug. 13.”
“After more than 36 hours of continuous rain, Yucatan has exceeded the record set by Hurricane Isidoro in September 2002…
“Residents in Merida and the area reported unprecedented flooding conditions. Swimming pools overflowed into houses and cars in low-lying driveways were submerged.”
“A grass fire burning northeast of San Francisco destroyed or damaged about a dozen homes Wednesday and prompted evacuations of several streets, fire officials said…
“About 200 firefighters fought the blaze in 100-degree heat.”
“The powerful cluster of thunderstorms that tore through eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey Wednesday afternoon, toppling trees and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes, was part of a rare weather phenomenon known as a derecho.
“Officials from the U.S. Storm Prediction Center and the National Weather Service say the violent storm system that generated wind gusts as strong as 89 mph…”
“Nome [Alaska] residents have experienced the warmest May in the city’s climate history…(The) average temperature for the month of May was 45.7° (Fahrenheit) and that is almost 9° above the 30-year normal.”
“Rick Thoman is a climatologist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP). According to Thoman, the prior May record for Nome was set in May of 1983 with an average temperature of about 42.8°…
“In 2019 Nome had its warmest March on record, earlier this year the most rainfall for April, and now the warmest May…”
“Arctic coastal watersheds are some of the most threatened regions on Earth, having undergone substantial climatic, physical and biological changes with the warming of the Earth, scientists have found…
“Previously calculated carbon budgets for the Arctic region often didn’t include measurements from small waterbodies and therefore underestimated the amount of carbon entering the atmosphere.”
“A flood in the Murmansk region damaged a railway bridge across the Kola River in northwestern Russia…
“One of the railway bridge’s five pillars collapsed on May 30. The supporting pillar was washed away by the Kola River, which overflowed its banks due to a drastic melting of snow-cover.”
“Russia’s Federal Forestry Agency has identified 12.3 million acres of wildfires raging across the country’s forests so far this year, four-fifths of which are in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
“Experts warn that this year’s blazes, some of which may have survived from last summer through a historically warm and dry winter, could become the most destructive in history.”
“Water levels in Ukraine’s rivers and reservoirs are the lowest they have ever been since records began to be kept in 1885, threatening the health and well-being of Ukrainians and the incomes of Ukrainian industry and the government, and exacerbating tensions with Russia over water supplies for occupied Crimea…”
“Moldova’s wheat harvest is likely to fall to about 600,000 tonnes this year from 1.1 million in 2019, hit by severe drought, news agencies quoted Moldovan agriculture ministry data as showing.
“Moldova consumes about 350,000 tonnes of wheat each season, exporting the rest.”
“The European Union expects dry weather to cause unusually widespread wildfires in Europe over the coming months, including in the central and northern regions that tend to be less at risk, the EU’s crisis management commissioner said on Tuesday.
“The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, expects the situation will get much worse over Europe’s summer.”
“It has never been so dry so early in the year in Denmark this century, according to the DMI’s drought index. The index yesterday reached its maximum level of 10.0 as temperatures exceeded 25 degrees for the first time in 2020, the denotation of a summer’s day in Denmark.”
“May was the U.K’s driest month in 124 years, and this spring was its sunniest on record.
“That came as welcome relief to millions of people locked down at home to slow the spread of Covid-19. It also helped create new records for the amount of renewable energy in the British electricity mix. But as a sign of what the future might hold, it’s not great.”
“Dave Throup, Environment Agency manager for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, said: “It’s hard to believe that three months after the highest levels recorded (higher than 2007); and severe flooding on the upper Teme, parts of the river are now dry.
“”We were rescuing stranded fish yesterday. Crazy days.””
“Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday…
“The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Cristobal was now expected to dip inland along the Mexican coast near the low-lying, flood-prone city of Ciudad del Carmen and meander there for a couple of days [sounds like Harvey]. That could pump a huge amount of water into coastal lagoons behind the city.”
“Cyclone Nisarga, which intensified into a severe cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea, is making landfall along India’s western coast, forcing a high alert in the financial hub of Mumbai and evacuation of tens of thousands of people…
“The storm surge threatened to flood beaches and low-lying slums as city authorities struggle to contain the pandemic.”
“Airlines, airports and insurers across Asia are bracing for the prospect of unusually high damage as the region’s tropical storm season begins, as hundreds of aircraft grounded by the coronavirus pandemic can’t be moved easily.
“Major airports in storm-vulnerable regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and India have been effectively turned into giant parking lots as COVID-19 travel restrictions choke demand.”
“The Pixaim Quilombo is one of many traditional communities made up mostly of Afro-Brazilian descendants of runaway slaves… Once a thriving community, it has been struggling for decades due to the impacts of upriver dams…
“Now, climate change threatens to make those struggles even greater, further changing fish populations, reducing river flow even more, and dangerously elevating the salinity of the stream as seawater intrudes.”
“The sixth mass extinction is not a worry for the future. It’s happening now, much faster than previously expected, and it’s entirely our fault, according to a study published Monday.
“Humans have already wiped out hundreds of species and pushed many more to the brink of extinction through wildlife trade, pollution, habitat loss and the use of toxic substances.”
“May was the sunniest calendar month on record, and spring was the sunniest spring, the Met Office has said.The UK enjoyed 266 hours of sunshine in May – surpassing the previous record of 265 hours in June 1957.
“And it is even more extraordinary following a drenching winter, with record rain in February. Meteorologists say they are amazed at the sudden switch from extreme wet to extreme dry – it is not “British” weather.”
“Record-breaking rainfall has devastated [Kenyan] communities – and with thousands displaced and more rain predicted the picture is bleak…
“As the frequency of extreme weather events increase, climate experts are warning of above normal levels of rainfall in the already saturated region in the coming months.”
“Flood victims living in camps in the Tana Delta have said that they are sharing tents with deadly snakes and face frequent visits by dangerous reptiles…
“The victims noted that for the past two weeks, they have had six cases of snake attacks on children while they sleep and while playing outside.”
“MUMBAI: The city could be in for a weather phenomenon that has never occurred in its documented history…
“The landfall of Cyclone Nisarga, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), is expected between Harihareshwar (in Maharashtra’s Raigad) and Daman during the afternoon of June 3.”
“Hundreds of hectares of paddy fields in the two districts [Bangladesh] have gone under water with constant rainfall and water rushing down from upstream, washing out and seriously damaging their crops.
“”We are already facing a labour crisis. Now, the flooding has dealt yet another blow to our livelihoods.””
“Today the Murray-Darling [Australia] is at the leading edge of… a series of water crises that could soon envelop river systems in Africa, South Asia, and the American West, as temperatures rise and economies compete for strained supplies.
“The area has spent most of the past several years in a drought so savage that it completely dried out sections of the Darling for months at a time.”
“Tropical Storm Amanda has killed at least 20 people in Central America…
“In El Salvador, officials said some 7,000 people have taken refuge in 154 shelters as torrential rain and strong winds destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged roads.”
“A tropical depression has formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico, near the Yucatan Peninsula, and will likely grow into Tropical Storm Cristobal by Tuesday…
“…marking the fastest start to the Atlantic hurricane season since 1851.”
“More than 50 polar bears have invaded the town of Novaya Zemlya in northern Siberia. The bears have been wandering around the city looking for food. They’ve foraged in dumpsters and even walked into people’s homes looking for something to eat…
“Climate change has reduced the areas where polar bears regularly hunt for food.”
“A new ‘mutant’ blood-sucking tick has been discovered in Russia amid a surge in tick bite victims, according to official government papers…
“And scientists have now reportedly discovered a mutant form of the arachnid which is said to have the ‘worst qualities’ of two common forms of ticks found in Russia.”
“The melting of glaciers and ice caps in places as diverse as the Himalayas and Andes mountain ranges, the Svalbard island group and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago…
“…has the dual effect of raising global sea levels and depleting freshwater resources that serve millions of people around the world.”
“Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in smoke last year, with an area roughly the size of Switzerland cut down or burned, much of it to make way for cattle and commercial crops, researchers said on Tuesday (June 2).
“Brazil accounted for more than a third of the loss, with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia a distant second and third…”
“The Earth is warming and disturbing the balance of the seasons.
“Data makes it clear that summers are expanding while winters are substantially shortening… most locations globally, including in the United States and Canada, have seen their summer season lengthen and the winter season shrink.”
“Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the season in the Pacific, killed at least 14 people as it lashed El Salvador and Guatemala on Sunday amid flooding and power outages…
“San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt said half of those killed died in the capital.
“”We are experiencing an unprecedented situation: one top-level emergency on top of another serious one,” he said, referring to the coronavirus pandemic.”
“Caribbean islands have rarely been so vulnerable as an unusually active hurricane season threatens a region still recovering from recent storms as it fights a worsening drought and a pandemic that has drained budgets and muddled preparations.
““It is crazy,” said Iram Lewis, Bahamian minister for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction. “No one could have imagined this.””
“A tropical system developing near Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean could set the record as the earliest, third-named storm to take shape ahead of the official hurricane season…
“There have never been three named storms recorded before the Atlantic hurricane season.”
“According to Sue Mauger, a stream ecologist at Cook Inletkeeper who has been monitoring salmon streams in Alaska for nearly two decades, temperatures as high as last year’s match the projections for 2069.
““We knew it was warming, but we didn’t expect to see that result that quickly,” Bursch said.”
“The Met Office confirmed that the community of Cromdale in Strathspey in the Highlands had the UK’s highest temperature of the year, 28.3C, on Friday.
“Spring in Scotland has been the sunniest since records began in 1929, with March, April and May delivering more than 500 hours of sunshine for the first time.”
“The winter of 2019/20 was exceptional, breaking records for both high temperatures and high rainfall, with the highest UK December temperature on record and the wettest UK February on record.
“Coinciding with this, there have been reports of more external parasites being found in sheep flocks e.g. lice, ticks and maggots which will have enjoyed this mild winter and had good survival rates.”
“Farmers [UK] have warned of produce price rises after sunny weather led to a reduction in crop harvesting.
“It has been the sunniest spring in the UK since records began in 1926, according to the Met Office, and it is believed that we have had the driest May for 124 years.”
“Wildfires raged around beauty spots across the country [UK] yesterday as temperatures continued to soar.
“Firefighters in Scotland, Surrey and Lancashire were tackling ‘significant’ blazes yesterday after warning that scarce rainfall and dry vegetation would provide ‘all of the ingredients’ for wildfires to spread.”
“At least seven people lost their lives, Friday, due to violent showers driven by hurricane-type strong winds which beset the capital city of the Republic of Somaliland.
“Six of the deceased were swept away in cars after deceptively strong floods caught them crossing river beds.”
“Kenya is experiencing some of the worst flooding for generations, adding a third layer of crisis to a nation buckled by the threat of Covid-19 and battling a massive locust invasion that is destroying vast areas of crops…
“About 233,000 people have been affected by the floods…”
“Two more people have died in flash flooding in caused by a tropical storm that continues to lash Oman’s southern city of Salalah, taking the total number of deaths to three in the last two days.
“The Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances said a man died after the roof of his house collapsed on him and another when his car was swept away by water…”
“Lucknow [India]: The unusual trend of weather being witnessed this year saw yet another record-breaking event on Saturday when city received the heaviest rainfall in a single day in of May in nearly seventy years…
“…at state Met observatory recording 57.4 mm rainfall in just 60 minutes of downpour that broke 61-year old record of 57m recorded on May 28, 1959.”
“A person drowned in the Kampur area of central Assam’s Nagaon district, taking the flood-related death toll to six in less than a weekeven as more than 4,000 people went back home from relief camps on Saturday…
“The floods have destroyed crop on 26,977 hectares, surface communication has been disrupted with 68 roads and half-a-dozen bridges damaged.”
“It’s probably too late to save most of the glaciers outside the polar regions; continuing greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming will see to that over the next century or so.
““We need to preserve these really important archives, because they are melting away,” Margit Schwikowski, an environmental chemist at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, says. “It’s really obvious if you go to the glaciers that they are suffering. It’s happening everywhere on Earth.”“
“The bitterly cold Arctic winter typically snuffs out the seasonal wildfires that erupt in this region. But every once in a while, a wildfire comes along that refuses to die.
“These blazes, known as “zombie fires” or “holdover fires,” can burrow into the rich organic material beneath the surface, such as the vast peatlands that ring the Arctic, and smolder under the snowpack throughout the frigid winter.
“With the Siberian Arctic seeing record warm conditions in recent weeks and months, scientists monitoring Arctic wildfire trends are becoming more convinced that some of the blazes erupting in the Arctic this spring are actually left over from last summer.”
““Forest fires in this region of the Arctic used to happen about every hundred years and now we’re seeing them every summer,” said Bianca Rodríguez-Cardona…
“”This increase in fires leads to more input of inorganic solutes into local streams which can alter the chemistry and trigger issues like increased algae blooms and bacteria that can be harmful to humans who depend on these waterways for drinking water, fishing and their livelihood.””
“…of all the many tangible climate change impacts, none may be bigger than coastal erosion and permafrost slump. A lake formed between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago transformed into a mudflat in less than a day.”
““It can rain in January, it can snow in May, there’s no logic to it any more,” Fjellstrom, 39, said, sitting with Viklund by their snowmobiles.
“Between 1991 and 2019, parts of northern and eastern Sweden saw a rise in average temperature of nearly two degrees C compared to the 1860-1900 period, Sweden’s meteorological institute said in a report.”
“Spring flood in Rovaniemi is expected to exceed the damage limit or even reach the level of the 1993 flood, Finland’s Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centre) informs…
“It could be a one-in-fifty year flood. The meltwater comes after the snowiest winter in 60 years in Lapland.”
“Belgium is on track to wrap up its warmest spring season in recorded history, with the country’s typically unstable weather this year giving way to nearly 700 hours of dry and sunny weather.
“The current month of May is also set to become the driest one in 200 years…”
“Dry weather conditions in parts of Ukraine will lead to a smaller winter wheat harvest in 2020-21, the state-run weather forecast center told Reuters on May 28… severe drought across the southern part of Ukraine is the main reason for the lowered forecast.
“Looking ahead to 2020-21, Ukraine Economy Minister Ihor Petrashko said on May 5 that the country is considering a cap on grain trade.”
“Under the scorching sun, farmer Dennis Onyango was replanting his rice fields yet again in Ahero, a town in southwest Kenya, after his entire crop of seedlings had been wiped out by floods – for the third time this year.
““I have been a rice farmer for the past 15 years, but what I have witnessed in the past few weeks has been catastrophic. I have never seen this before,” he added.”
“Residents of Delhi are bracing themselves for a possible invasion of locusts, which have been ravaging areas in the north of the country.
“A change in wind direction could save the city, but Dr K L Gurjar, deputy director of the Locust Warning Organisation, has warned residents to be prepared to “make a lot of loud noise so that instead of settling, they keep flying and fly past the city. And don’t panic”.”
“With homes destroyed or uninhabitable, more than 200,000 people in India and at least 100,000 in Bangladesh remain crammed into cyclone shelters—often with little regard to coronavirus precautions.
“The most damage caused by Amphan was from the accompanying storm surge, which wrecked several hundred kilometres (miles) of embankments that are supposed to protect homes and farms in low-lying coastal areas.”
“Thailand’s economic planning agency said on Thursday that about 14.4 million workers may face unemployment in the second and third quarters, largely due to impact of COVID-19 and the ongoing severe drought.
“Out of the 14.4 million workers, some 8.4 million are estimated to be at risk of job loss…”
“Forests across the world are transforming as the Earth heats up and as more frequent and severe droughts, wildfires and disease outbreaks destroy trees.
“In a new report published in Science magazine, researchers warn that climate change is accelerating the death of trees, stunting their growth and making forests across the world younger and shorter.”
“California is bracing for the possibility of a devastating wildfire season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“One nightmare sequence of events could have California hospitals filled with patients from a resurgent coronavirus while a wildfire in the north forces the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents and blankets vast areas in smoke — potentially making people more susceptible to the respiratory symptoms of COVID-19.”
“Following days of record-breaking heat across California, the intense warmth from a long-lasting heat wave will shift its focus to a different part of the West to end the week…
“Death Valley recorded yet another impressive feat on Thursday. The mercury only dropped to 95 on Thursday, setting a record not only for the warmest low temperature for the day itself, but for the entire month of May as well.”
“Heavy rains with scattered thunderstorms pounded parts of the Kansas City area Thursday, May 28, 2020, leading to flash flood and flood warnings for the metro. Several cars in Westport were swept away by high water.”
“Tropical Storm Bertha moved through South Carolina Wednesday, bringing up to 5 inches of rain to the states with record rainfall reported in Charleston of more than 2 inches.”
“It’s not even June, but the tropics are already bubbling.
“There have already been two named storms — Arthur and Bertha — and the National Hurricane Center is now keeping tabs on a system of disorganized weather in the central Atlantic.”
“Antarctic ice sheets retreated at speeds of up to 50 meters (164 feet) a day at the end of the last Ice Age — about ten times quicker than the fastest retreating sheets of today — researchers have found…
“Researchers warn that, should climate change carry on weakening ice shelves in coming decades, we could soon see similar levels of ice retreat — more than were thought possible — with huge implications for global sea levels.”
“A short but intense heatwave swept over southeastern Canada and the American Northeast this week…
“If the 98°F reading at Montreal-Trudeau stands, it would become the station’s highest temperature on record for the month of May and come in as one of the hottest temperatures ever recorded at the station…”
“A fire in the Blackville area [NB, Canada] continues to burn out of control, consuming more than 800 hectares of forest.
“The Sabbies River fire has only grown slightly in the past 24 hours, but the estimates of its size grew as smoke cleared and firefighters got a better idea of how much forest it covered.”
“A heat wave is continuing across the entire state of Nevada, where new record highs have been set at Lake Tahoe and Reno and more records are in jeopardy through Friday from Las Vegas to Elko.
“Dangerously hot conditions for late May have triggered an excessive heat warning effective through 8 p.m. Friday for Las Vegas…”
“Tropical Storm Bertha made landfall on South Carolina’s coast Wednesday morning just hours after it was officially named, becoming the second named storm to hit before the official start of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season…
“…the storm was expected to bring heavy rainfall with up to eight inches of rain in certain areas, the US National Hurricane Center said.”
“Even for Florida’s notorious tropical downpours, this week featured something that was truly one-of-a-kind…
“First, there’s the daily record set in Miami from Tuesday, where over seven inches of rain fell on that day alone. More over, almost all of that fell in just two hours. But of course, this came on the heels of several other days of astronomical rain totals. In all, Miami received between 11 to over 14 inches of rain in just 72 hours (3 days).”
“Late spring normally means lush lawns, verdant parks and brimming reservoirs. But it is very different this year – thanks to the driest May in 124 years.
“A very un-British lack of rain has left the landscape looking as parched as it might appear at the end of a long, hot summer.”
“Britain’s vital infrastructure is under threat from the ravages of extreme weather and climate breakdown, unless ministers take swift action to protect against flooding, heatwaves and drought, government advisers have warned.
“Energy networks and water utilities, communications, transport and other essential services are all at risk…”
“The death toll from floods that have been pounding the East African nation of Kenya has risen to 285, the government announced on Wednesday.
“Heavy downpours annually witnessed around this time of the year in Kenya have wreaked havoc across the nation marked with flash floods, landslides and sinkholes, leaving thousands displaced, livestock dead and crops destroyed.”
“Punjab was in the grip of a severe heat wave with Bathinda recording a record high of 47.5°C…
“As per the agro-meteorological centre of Punjab Agricultural University’s regional research centre this is the highest temperature recorded in Bathinda since 2000.”
“Cyclone Amphan which affected more than 10 million and killed 86 people was the strongest cyclone to hit West Bengal in a decade. Tanmay Chatterjee and Joydeep Thakur spoke to the people who faced the full fury of the cyclone.
“‘As if the lockdown was not enough to cripple us…’, says honey seller Gopal Mondol…”
“ABS Director of Agriculture Statistics, Sarah Kiely, said: “Worsening drought and lack of feed in the eastern states [Australia] forced many sheep and cattle producers to destock with the national sheep flock at its lowest level since 1905.
“Following a similar pattern, the beef cattle herd reduced 6 per cent to 22 million head.”
“Indigenous people believe that climate change has even affected their physical health:
“…previously controlled diseases like measles and yellow fever, they say, have inexplicably reappeared in the rainforest, and even indigenous women’s menstrual cycles are beginning at an earlier age.”
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“Permafrost, which amounts to two thirds of the Russian territory, is a huge natural reservoir of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. 
“A significant melt event is unfolding in Greenland this week.
“Vladimir Putin has ordered a state of emergency after 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel spilled into a river inside the Arctic Circle. 
“Dublin had its sunniest month on record in May, with almost 300 hours of sunshine recorded, the national forecaster has said. 
“Striking aerial images have revealed how a brimming UK reservoir has been reduced to a small trickle by the recent heatwave. 
“After weeks of sunny weather France was hit by violent thunderstorms this week. 
“Cyprus experienced the hottest May on record as an extreme week-long heatwave gripped the island pushing temperatures to peak at 44.4° Celsius, the meteorology office data shows.
“A locust plague is expected to spike this month in East and Central Africa, putting millions of people at risk of increased hunger and poverty. 
“Five children were killed in torrential rain in Yemen’s eastern Hadhramaut province, an official told Anadolu Agency. 
“…experts described cyclone Nisarga as the first severe storm to threaten India’s financial capital in more than 70 years. 
“Almost two weeks after cyclone Amphan barreled through Bangladesh, Red Crescent teams have already reached more than 30,000 people, but thousands more are in need of further humanitarian assistance. 
“With the first heat wave advisory issued Thursday, South Korea is expecting this summer to be one of the hottest in decades. 
“We found snow was once a regular feature of the southern Australian climate... 
“Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered its most extensive coral bleaching event in March, with scientists fearing the coral recovers less each time after the third bleaching in five years.
“Researchers have identified a climate feedback mechanism that could have catastrophic consequences for one of the world’s great rainforests. 
“Cristobal has already set records in the Atlantic basin. It became the earliest-ever third named tropical storm to form in any Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history on Tuesday… 
“After more than 36 hours of continuous rain, Yucatan has exceeded the record set by Hurricane Isidoro in September 2002…
“A grass fire burning northeast of San Francisco destroyed or damaged about a dozen homes Wednesday and prompted evacuations of several streets, fire officials said… 
“The powerful cluster of thunderstorms that tore through eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey Wednesday afternoon, toppling trees and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes, was part of a rare weather phenomenon known as a derecho.
““I do not think I’ll ever see this again. Constant lightning over Toronto skies.”“
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“The bitterly cold Arctic winter typically snuffs out the seasonal wildfires that erupt in this region. But every once in a while, a wildfire comes along that refuses to die.
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