The to the UN Convention on Climate Change is an annual UN climate conference. This year is the 26th annual summit, attended by representatives of over 200 countries.
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Category: Weather
Scientists find new way to predict deadly supercell storms of icy plumes
Scientists from Stanford University published a research paper that proposed a new way to predict deadly supercell storms.
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Hurricane Ida – a category 4 storm hits coastal area of New Orleans
Hurricane Ida is the strongest storm to hit Louisiana in at least 165 years. It is a category 4 storm with winds up to 150 m/h (or 240 km/h).
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Wildfires in western Canada
A wildfire amid a record heat wave in western Canada has forced authorities to order residents to evacuate a village in British Columbia that smashed the country’s record for hottest temperature three days in a row this week.
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First Rain fall at the Summit on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Greenland’s Summit Station experienced the first-ever rain fall event in recorded history since 1950.
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Heat wave causes massive meltdown of Greenland’s ice sheet
Denmark, Jul 3: Global warming is causing the average temperatures to rise across continents.Greenland’s ice sheet has melted by about 8 billion tons a day…
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Extreme weather around the world
Several rain-related extreme weather occurrences have occurred in India over the last week. The state of Maharashtra is experiencing the heaviest rain in July in four decades.
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Monster Thunderstorm hits Mumbai
Mumbai witnessed record-breaking torrential rain, with some places recording more than 270mm of rainfall on Saturday, 17th July 2021.
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Raging wildfires consume two million acres of land in the US
Seventy-one wildfires are currently burning over millions of acres of land across the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming in the United States.
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Canada – US heatwave by Ananya Singh and Padma Priya
This week saw a scorching heat wave in Canada and the United States. Temperatures in Western Canada and the Northwest of the United States reached 50°C, shattering previous highs.
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