The declaration came as the Bureau of Meteorology confirmed 2024 was Australia's second-warmest year on record.

In 2024, natural disasters related to variations in the water cycle caused more than 8,700 deaths and at least $550 billion of economic loss.

As a result, the Ocean CSI can help connect climate change-driven ocean warming to environmental consequences such as tropical cyclone (hurricane ... anywhere in the global ocean.

Tropical storm Dikeledi barreled towards Mozambique ... which provides more intensity to storms, a global warming phenomenon also observed in the North Atlantic and the Pacific.

The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. Logging and land conversion ...

This aerial view shows destroyed shelters and houses in Vahibe, on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, Mayotte, on December 24, 2024, a week after the cyclone ... to storms, a global warming phenomenon ...