July ends 13-month streak of global heat records as El Nino ebbs, but experts warn against relief | AP News

July ends 13-month streak of global heat records as El Nino ebbs, but experts warn against relief | AP News

Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end in July. That’s according to the European climate agency Copernicus.Both the agency and outside experts warned that the end of the record-breaking streak changes nothing about the threat posed by climate change. Earth’s string of 13 straight months with

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Nagasaki Mayor: decision to not invite Israel to atomic bombing anniversary ceremony ‘not political’ | AP News

Nagasaki Mayor: decision to not invite Israel to atomic bombing anniversary ceremony ‘not political’ | AP News

Envoys from the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. and the European Union signed a joint letter expressing their shared concern about Israel’s exclusion, saying that treating the country on the same level as Russia and Belarus — the only other countries not invited — would be misleading. Mayor of Nagasaki Shiro Suzuki

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