Description
Added on the 06/12/2023 07:08:12 - Copyright : Euronews EN
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announces that May 2024 was the warmest May on record worldwide "marking the twelfth month in a row" to be the warmest month. SOUNDBITE
Soldiers of the British Coldstream Guard, wearing their traditional "bearskin" tall fur cap, take part in the changing of the Republican Guard on the steps of the presidential palace in Paris, to celebrate 120 years of Entende Cordiale agreements between France and the UK. IMAGES
"I still have more high probability for 2024 to break the record," explains the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) chief of climate monitoring, Omar Baddour, during a presentation of the annual State of the Climate report. "January was the warmest January on record (...) we have already signs of going through a very warm year in 2024," he adds. SOUNDBITE
The US West Point military academy finds no apparent contents in a 200-year-old time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point, New York, and believed to have been left by cadets in the 1820s. "The box didn't quite meet expectations," says an expert during the unveiling ceremony, adding that his team will collect a layer of silt from the bottom of the box to see if they can find any remains in it. IMAGES
CJ et Marcella luttent pour protéger leur relation contre la pression de la famille et des amis
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), says it is virtually certain that the high temperatures in July mean that "the month as a whole will become the warmest July on record, the warmest month on record". The top 21 hottest days have "all occurred this month", he adds. SOUNDBITE