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Lives at risk if wireless technology demands are not held in check: UN weather watchdog

New York/IBNS: Amid growing competition for radio wave space due to new wireless technologies, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday called on governments to protect radio frequencies allocated to potentially life-saving weather forecasting services.

Guterres underlines climate action urgency, as UN weather agency confirms record global warming

New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): In the wake of data released by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showing the past four years were officially the ‘four warmest on record,’ UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent climate action and increased ambition, ahead of his climate summit in September.

Thai cave boys spared thundershowers, highlighting extreme climate disruption: UN weather agency

New York, July 11 (IBNS): Thundershowers that have been forecast in northern Thailand luckily did not materialize, easing the extraordinary rescue of a boys’ football team and their coach, who spent well over two weeks trapped in a cave complex there, UN weather experts said on Tuesday.

Heatwaves, hurricanes, floods: 2017 costliest year ever for extreme weather and climate events, says UN

New York, Mar 23 (JEN): Hurricanes, monsoon floods and continuing severe drought made 2017 the costliest year ever for severe weather and climate events, according to a new report by the United Nations weather agency launched on the eve of World Meteorological Day.