Last year was the hottest year on record globally, beating 2015's exceptionally high temperatures, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.

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Greenhouse gases rose to a symbolic milestone in 2015, taking climate change into a new phase which could last generations even if governments act to curb manmade global warming, the UN World Meteorological Organisation has warned.

A record-breaking string of hot years since 2000 is a sign of man-made global warming, says a new study, and there is a decreasing chance it was caused by random, natural swings.

The United Nations Environment Programme has chosen UCC to lead the way in assisting with their Global Environment Monitoring System for Water, (GEMS/Water).

The weather phenomenon is predicted to hit before the end of the year.

There is a strong chance an El Nino weather event will reappear before the end of the year, a UN agency has warned.

Global warming has accelerated since the 1970s and broken more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts say.

Last year was the ninth-warmest since record-keeping began in 1850, despite the cooling effect of the weather pattern called La Nina, the World Meteorological Organisation says.

Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia today sending frightened people to high ground .

THIS year could become one of the top 10 hottest since 1850, with global temperatures expected to be almost half a degree celsius warmer in 2012 than the long-term (1961-1990)average of 14 degrees, the British Met Office said.

THE UN weather agency says 2010 is “almost certain” to rank among the three hottest years on record.

Charles J Hanley reports from New York on the troubling signs of climate change and efforts to cope

THIS decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the UN weather agency reported yesterday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference.

IT is apparent that Dr Colmán Etchingham (Letters, March 25) has not bothered to familiarise himself with either the history of the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or with the detail of its work and method of operation.

Greenhouse gases reached a record level in the Earth’s atmosphere last year, the UN weather agency announced today.

International flights were delayed and thousands of US commuters were unable to get to work today as torrential rain flooded New York’s subways and rail lines.

THE year 2003, marked by a sweltering summer and drought across huge swaths of the planet, was the third hottest in more than 150 years, the UN weather agency said yesterday.

The ozone hole has formed again over the Antarctic and is showing signs of growing toward record size, the UN’s weather organisation said today.

Record extremes in weather and climate will become increasingly common as temperatures rise because of climate change, the United Nations weather agency said today.