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The animation above shows the daily maximum air temperature over North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia between June 15 and 25, 2024. It was produced by combining satellite observations with temperature forecasts from a version of NASA's Earth Observatory GEOS model.

Breaking the thermometer: the climate crisis hit many countries while breaking heat records

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49 degrees Celsius in Mecca in the midst of the Hajj. In Delhi, 35 degrees were recorded - at night. From January to May 2024, an average increase of 1.1 degrees above the multi-year average was recorded in the Northern Hemisphere
Hurricane Harvey as seen from the International Space Station. Source: NASA.

How do you cool a hurricane?

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Sophisticated climate change models predict that the areas of storms and rain will be shifted towards the poles due to global warming. Source: NASA.

Climate warming will increase the movement of rain storms towards the poles

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Urban shadow. A significant difference in the feeling of heat. Photo: Sawyer Bengtson on Unsplash.

Heavy thermal load

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Mars and the ice caps at the poles alone. Photographed by the Rosetta spacecraft during a flyby of Mars in 2007. Source: ESA.

Researchers: It snows on Mars during the summer nights

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A smart home inspired by nature. Authorship belongs to Glorimar Irizarry Delgado

A smart home - not what we thought

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Forecasting storms using soap bubbles. The color code indicates the intensity of the turbulence [courtesy of CNRS]

Can soap bubbles help predict the strength of storms?

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Earth's magnetic field, composite of several NASA images. Photo: Christine Daniloff, MIT

Plasma plumes protect the Earth from the damaging solar storms

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A recent picture of North America and the polar winds blowing cold air to the east coast, while the west remains dry. Photo: NOAA

The jet stream that changed as a result of the warming of the North Pole caused the current winter mirages

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Heat wave in April 2011. From the website israelweather.co.il

Hot, hot, hot!

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Forecaster Danny Rupp, during the presentation of the forecast on Channel 10 on warmer days. Screenshot from YouTube

Survey in the USA: about half of the TV forecasters deny global warming

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

November '99 The warmest November in the United States in the last 105 years

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