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A view of a damaged road connecting the two cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe following heavy rains caused by Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Blantyre, Malawi, Tuesday, March 14 2023. The U.N. weather agency said Tuesday, July 2, 2024, that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year, was confirmed to be the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded at 36 days. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)

U.N. weather agency says Tropical Cyclone Freddy that hit eastern Africa last year was longest ever

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FILE - A man cools off in a shower at Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2023. The latest calculations from several science agencies Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, all say that global average temperatures for 2023 shattered existing heat records. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)

Scientists explain why the record-shattering 2023 heat has them on edge. Warming may be worsening

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

FILE - Team members of ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', Matthias Huss, arrive at the Rhone Glacier partially covered near Goms, Switzerland, June 16, 2023. The U.N. weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the planet from climate change. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

U.N. agency cites worrying warming trend as COP28 summit grapples with curbing climate change

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Argentina's Celeste Saulo poses after she was elected as Secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 01, 2023 during the UN climate and weather agency's congress in Geneva. Saulo has served as the director of Argentina’s National Meteorological Service since 2014. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Argentine meteorologist becomes first female head of U.N. weather agency

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UN: COVID-19 lockdowns slashed pollutants, not CO2 levels

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FILE - In this Friday, July 10, 2020 file image taken from video provided by Russian Emergency Ministry, a Russian Emergency Ministry's Beriev plane BE-200 Be-200 multipurpose amphibious aircraft releases water in the Trans-Baikal National Park in Buryatia, southern Siberia, Russia. The United Nations weather agency said Tuesday Sept. 1, 2020, this summer will go down for leaving a “deep wound” in the cryosphere -- the planet’s frozen parts -- amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

UN agency laments summer’s ‘deep wound’ to Earth’s ice cover

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FILE - In this June 27, 2019 file photo a man runs on a small path as the sun rises in Frankfurt, Germany. The world could see average global temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average for the first time in the coming five years, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday. The 1.5-C mark is a key threshold that countries have agreed to limit global warming to, if possible. Scientists say average temperatures around the world are already at least 1 C higher now than during the period from 1850-1900 because of man-made greenhouse emissions. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

UN: World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold by 2024

By NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by Olga Burtseva, children play in the Krugloe lake outside Verkhoyansk, the Sakha Republic, about 4660 kilometers (2900 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 21, 2020. A Siberian town that endures the world's widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a hear wave that is contributing to severe forest fires. Russia's meteorological service said the thermometer hit 38 Celsius (100.4 F) on Saturday in Verkhoyansk, in the Sakha Republic about 4660 kilometers (2900 miles) northeast of Moscow. (Olga Burtseva via AP)

UN evaluates reports of record Arctic heat in Siberia

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UN: Last year was second-warmest and decade was hottest ever

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo, a lonely penguin appears in Antarctica during the southern hemisphere's summer season. The temperature in northern Antarctica hit nearly 65 degrees (18.3 degrees Celsius), a likely heat record on the continent best known for snow, ice, and penguins. The reading was taken Thursday, Feb. 5, 2020 at an Argentine research base and still needs to be verified by the World Meteorological Organization. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Jana, File)

UN: Antarctic high temp records will take months to verify

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UN chief: Data shows July equaled or surpassed hottest month

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Pavel Kabat, WMO Chief Scientist and Research Director, speaks about the release of WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin with details on annual average concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, during a press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

As Trump questions global warming, UN says: US gov’t won’t

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press