Atlantic to get 'extraordinary' hurricane season - NOAA said today, predicting as many as 7 major hurricanes (cat.3 or more), as much as the record 2005 and 2020 seasons.

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Saudi forces were ‘licensed to kill’ to evict villagers for NEOM - the futuristic, eco-city - an ex-intelligence officer told us.

We spoke to former execs who called it a climate disaster and a UK company who pulled out of a £100m contract in The Line.

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'Unprecedented floods' in Kenya have left large tracts of the country underwater. Satellite data from Apr 29 shows Garissa City and Mororo Village along the Tala river flooded

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we mapped tents in Rafah by applying machine learning to high resolution satellite imagery from Planet. we also show damaged buildings from analysis done by corey scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek. 🛰️

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a small thread with some model specifics 🧵

Sustained record-breaking ocean temperatures have triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Read the latest from Georgina Rannard and Erwan Rivault

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Ocean temperatures climbed to new highs in March 2023. Every day since has set a new daily record: more than 365 consecutive highs

We used a Spilhaus map projection to focus on the world’s oceans, by showing them as one connected body

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Apparently there are more golf courses than McDonald's, which seemed surprising, so I had to map it. The difference mostly comes from the spread of golf courses outside cities.

More green = more golf. More yellow = more McDonald's.

2023: Warmest year on record

2024: Hold my beer

This gorgeous new BBC chart shows how the coldest days on Earth now are warmer than the hottest days before the 1980s.

You know who predicted this would happen with near-perfect precision? Exxon Mobil scientists, in an internal report in 1982. Two versions of the same chart:

Over 50% of Gaza’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged since 7 Oct, shown through in-depth satellite analysis by the BBC Verify team

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More than half of Gaza's buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its retaliation for the Hamas attacks of 7 October, new analysis commissioned by BBC Verify reveals.
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You really don't need to zoom on 30cm resolution satellite imagery to spot damage in Gaza.

New Sentinel-2 image from this morning (10m resolution) shows widespread damage to urban areas and farmlands across the whole Gaza Strip.

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