According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2024 is all set to be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year to cross the symbolic 1.5°C limit. The experts have also said that 2023 was 1.48°C above the pre-industrial levels and 2024 is “likely” to be more than 1.55°C.
Did You Know?
Pre-industrial refers to the benchmark period of 1850-1900. This is the time before humans started significantly heating up the planet by burning large amounts of fossil fuels.
The Indian hockey team defeated the People’s Republic of China 1-0 in the final to win the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 at the Rajgir Hockey Stadium in Bihar. Deepika scored the winning goal for the Indian women’s hockey team and finished as the tournament’s top goal scorer with a tally of 11.
This was India’s third Women’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey title, bringing them level with the Republic of Korea as the most successful nation in the competition’s history. The Indian women won their maiden title in 2016 before clinching the 2023 edition as well.
Former French Open winner Barbora Krejcikova from the Czech Republic claimed her first Wimbledon women’s singles title. She won 2 sets to 1 against Jasmine Paolini, who is from Italy.
In a repeat of last year’s final, Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz defeated seven-time champion Novak Djokovic to win his second consecutive All England Tennis Championship in London. Carlos Alcaraz has become the youngest man to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year. Roger Federer has won the most Wimbledon titles.
The Labour Party has won the 2024 general election. The Conservative Party has lost power in the UK for the first time in 14 years. The leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer is the new prime minister of the UK. Sir Keir Starmer is 64-years-old and before joining politics he was a human rights lawyer. The new prime minister has to solve various issues related to job loss, strikes by junior doctors regarding their pay rise, water pollution, etc.
Did You Know?
There are a record 26 Indian origin MPs elected in the new House of Commons, UK.
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe has safely landed on Earth after a two-month journey to the far side of the Moon and back. The unmanned spacecraft touched down in the Inner Mongolia desert on June 25. It contains some very rare rock and soil samples that were collected after Chang’e-6 landed on the unexplored far side of the Moon.
According to the China National Space Administration, Chang’e-6 used a computer system to check for any obstacles that would be in the way of landing, before touching down on the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin. This is a crater on the side of the Moon that always faces away from Earth, an area that’s hard to reach because it’s really far away and doesn’t have many flat surfaces that are easy to land on. It’s hoped that the Moon rocks will allow scientists to uncover more secrets about how planets are formed.
