Birder Peter Kaestner has recorded seeing 9,856 different species of birds on his life list in the eBird app, a world record. He's trying for 10,000, travelling to remote (and sometimes unstable) locales to do so.
Extremely hot days are warming twice as fast as average summer days in North-West Europe. "Last year's heatwave was not a fluke."
There's a 98% chance that global temperatures will soar to record highs in the next five years, due to human-caused warming and El Niño, including a possible spike above the 1.5°C threshold.
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