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Global heating continued unabated despite Covid lockdowns, with record Arctic wildfires and Atlantic tropical stormsThe climate crisis continued unabated in 2020, with the the joint highest global temperatures on record, alarming heat and record wildfires in the Arctic, and a record 29 tropical storms in the Atlantic.Despite a 7% fall in fossil fuel burning due to coronavirus lockdowns, heat-trapping carbon dioxide continued to build...

Met Office choice of Heulwen for its 2020-21 storm season draws criticism after Wales was badly flooded last winterThe naming of storms can be a difficult matter, as the Met Office has found out.Welsh speakers expressed dismay and surprise after the UK forecaster chose the girls’ name Heulwen as one of its 2020-21 storm names. Continue reading...