Last month was the world’s warmest February in modern times, the EU’s climate service says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a row.
Each month since June 2023 has seen new temperature highs for the time of year.
The world’s sea surface is at its hottest on record, while Antarctic sea-ice has again reached extreme lows.
The media has a problem with this kind of news: they tend to use stock photos of people having fun summer water-based activities. This is not the reality and the lack of freshwater that’s clean or potable is a distinct but connected crisis.