In photos: EU scientists confirm that 2023 was world's hottest year on record
Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a substantial margin and likely the world’s warmest in the last 100,000 years, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Tuesday. Scientists had widely expected the milestone, after climate records were repeatedly broken. Since June, every month has been the world’s hottest on record compared with the corresponding month in previous years.
Residents watch the McDougall Creek wildfire in West Kelowna, B.C. on August 17, 2023.DARREN HULL/AFP/Getty Images
A woman walks on a bridge during the fires in Renaico, Araucania region, Chile on February 4, 2023.JAVIER TORRES/Getty Images
A heat advisory sign is shown along US highway 190 during a heat wave in Death Valley National Park in Death Valley, California, on July 16, 2023.RONDA CHURCHILL/Getty Images
Burnt out trucks from a wildfire sit on a property near Drayton Valley, Alta. on May 10, 2023.JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press
New York City is visible in a haze-filled sky due to wildfires in Canada, photographed from the Staten Island Ferry, on June 7, 2023.Yuki Iwamura/The Associated Press
A man cools off during a heatwave in Baghdad, Iraq, July, 6, 2023.Hadi Mizban/The Associated Press
The cracked earth of the Sau reservoir is visible north of Barcelona, Spain, March 20, 2023.Emilio Morenatti/The Associated Press
Residents of a riverside community carry food and containers of drinking water from an aid distribution due to the ongoing drought in Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 24, 2023.Edmar Barros/The Associated Press
People suffering from heat related ailments crowd the district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh state, India, June 20, 2023.Rajesh Kumar Singh/The Associated Press
A woman enters the sea from a beach where wildfires destroyed the woods in the southern part of the Greek island of Rhodes, on July 27, 2023.ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/Getty Images
Sweat covers the face of Juan Carlos Biseno after dancing to music from his headphones as afternoon temperatures reach 46.1 degrees on July 19, 2023, in Calexico, Calif.Gregory Bull/The Associated Press
An air tanker drops fire retardant on the Eagle Bluff wildfire after it crossed the Canada-U.S. border from the state of Washington and prompted evacuation orders in Osoyoos, B.C. on July 30, 2023.JESSE WINTER/Reuters
Sunbathers cool off at Macumba beach, in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, on September 24, 2023, during a heatwave which registered 39.9 degrees.TERCIO TEIXEIRA/Getty Images
Pedestrians walk under a pharmacy's sign indicating the current outside temperature near the Scalinata di Trinita dei Monti (Spanish Steps) in Rome on July 17, 2023.TIZIANA FABI/Getty Images
Destroyed houses are seen from across Lake Okanagan almost a week after the McDougall Creek burned through the community of West Kelowna B.C. on August 24, 2023.JESSE WINTER/Reuters
This underwater photograph taken on August 16, 2023, shows fragments of a melting iceberg due to unusually high temperatures in Scoresby Fjord, Greenland.OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images
A melting iceberg drifts due to high temperatures in Scoresby Fjord near Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, on August 12, 2023.OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images
Flames and smouldering brush in an area where wildfires are raging north of Obedjiwan, Quebec, Canada on June 12, 2023.RENAUD PHILIPPE/The New York Times News Service
Smoke from wildfires burning across both Ontario and Quebec blanket the skyline in Kingston, Ont., Tuesday, June 6, 2023.Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press