Ecology

AP -  A study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society charted the North Atlantic sea temperature and the Antarctic sea ice halfway across the globe against long-accepted computer simulations... Last year, a record hot year by far, the world was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times, according to the European climate agency Copernicus. And over the long-term of decades, which is what scientists use, the world is at about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal. “The climate of 2023 with all the disasters, you know, with all the wildfires in Canada and all the flooding events in Europe and everything, you can interpret this as, this what we will have every year. Year after year after year in the 3-degree world,” said study author Till Kuhlbrodt, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Sciences and the University of Reading in England. “You don’t want to go there.” That’s still a few decades away, he said.

CNN-  At least five uncontrolled wildfires are threatening Texas Panhandle towns and forcing residents to evacuate. The Smokehouse Creek Fire, which ignited Monday afternoon, has scorched more than 370,000 acres of land, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. Meanwhile, several other wildfires are burning nearby, fueled by high winds and dry air. The threat has sparked evacuation orders for several communities in northern Texas and some bordering Oklahoma towns. Local authorities have received reports of burned structures and charred farms, where some ranchers told CNN they had no time to evacuate their livestock.