Climate change, El Nino drive hottest June on record

The announcement from the EU monitor Copernicus marked the latest in a series of records for a year that has already seen a drought in Spain and fierce heat waves in China and the United States.

On the other hand it was cooler than normal in western Australia, the western United States and western Russia, it said.It was the latest in a series of heat records over recent years, reflecting the impact of global warming driven by greenhouse gases released from human activity. A rickshaw puller quenches his thirst with a juice during a heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 6, 2023Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest extent for June since satellite observations began, at 17 percent below average.

Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the UN's World Meteorological Organization, warned on Monday that El Nino"will greatly increase the likelihood of breaking temperature records and triggering more extreme heat in many parts of the world and in the ocean." As well as withering crops, melting glaciers and raising the risk of wildfires, higher-than-normal temperatures also cause health problems ranging from heatstroke and dehydration to cardiovascular stress.

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