Global sea levels swelled to a high, tropical cyclones multiplied, and the world’s thermometer set a record in 2014, according to a report that tracks climate.

Last month was the hottest September since record-keeping began in 1880.

Starting in about a decade, Kingston, Jamaica, will probably be off-the-charts hot — permanently.

An enormous solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, satellite navigating systems and aeroplane flights.

The world’s oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300m years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56m years ago, scientists said.

Arctic Sea ice melted this summer to the second lowest level since record-keeping began more than 50 years ago, scientists reported today, mostly blaming global warming.

Solar storms could have “devastating effects” on human technology when they hit a peak in 2013, an expert has warned.

THOUSANDS of people fled their homes along the California coast yesterday as a tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake in Japan began hitting the US West Coast after rolling through Hawaii.

A new report suggests a slowdown in global warming in recent years may have been caused by a decline in water vapour in the stratosphere.

Most of Ireland experienced the warmest year on record during 2007 and also some of the most chaotic weather, forecasters revealed today.

Massive waves split a Russian oil tanker in two during a fierce storm, spilling at least 2,000 metric tons of fuel into a strait leading to the Black Sea.

Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast as a record-breaking Category 5 monster storm today in an area home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians.

Human-caused global warming is visible in the air, water and melting ice and destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative world report will warn.

Worldwide, it was the warmest September on record, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today.

US and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, US forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December’s tsunami disaster, a lawyer said yesterday.

Dozens of nations and international organisations have today endorsed a 10-year blueprint for a global climate watch system.

The ozone hole over Antarctica is markedly smaller this year than in the past few years and has split in two, US government scientists reported.