Ireland’s tourism sector is on the crest of a wave. It had a record year in 2018.

Experts have concluded that human-driven changes added up to 3 degrees Celsius to the recent record-breaking temperatures, write Eric Roston, Mathew Carr and Lisa Pham

Met Eireann predicts temperatures of 19 degrees next week.

Cyclone Fani has torn through India's eastern coast as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 200km/h and affecting weather as far away as Mount Everest as it approached the former imperial capital of Kolkata.

The gradual progression of climate change and delayed effects of emissions can give a sense of unreality; denial is a great psychological defence, write Liam Quaide and Róisín Cuddihy.

Popular forecaster Gerald ‘The Winking Weatherman’ Fleming is finally calling it a day and retiring after nearly 40 years in the business.

This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

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.

Surging carbon dioxide levels have pushed greenhouse gases to record highs in the atmosphere, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

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.

Much of the extreme weather that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe and the Pacific region last year can be blamed on human-induced climate change, the UN weather agency has said.

World carbon dioxide pollution levels in the atmosphere are accelerating and reached a record high last year, the UN weather agency said yesterday.

World carbon dioxide pollution levels are accelerating and reached a record high in 2012, the UN weather agency says.

In a message to the conference in Stockholm, secretary general of the UN Ban Ki-moon sent his best wishes and gratitude to the IPCC, and said the “world’s eyes” are on the city today.

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.

A review of the weather in 2011 has found no shortage of warmth, but not when it was most needed.

ON July 20, 1969, thousands of people across Ireland sat watching grainy black and white images of men taking their first steps on the moon.

GLOBAL warming gases are at record levels from emissions, the UN’s weather agency has warned.

Global warming gases are at record levels from emissions, the UN's weather agency has warned.

THE protective ozone layer in the Arctic that keeps out the sun’s most damaging rays — ultraviolet radiation — has thinned about 40% this winter, a record drop, the UN weather agency has said.

The depletion of the ozone layer shielding Earth from damaging ultraviolet rays has reached an unprecedented low over the Arctic because of harmful chemicals and a cold winter, the UN weather agency warned today.