Climate and Environment | Philstar.com

Hong Kong's weather service said Friday that 2024 was the city's hottest year since records began 140 years ago, mirroring a global trend of rising temperatures and extreme weather sparked by climate change.

A powerful winter storm began hammering the central United States on Saturday, with meteorologists warning that millions in the east of the country would face blizzard conditions, treacherous ice, frigid temperatures and severe travel disruptions.

Last year was China's hottest on record and the past four years were its warmest ever, its weather agency said this week.

The number of tropical cyclones each year has not risen over the past four decades but their intensity has.

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024.