Agence France-Presse: This year may end as the hottest on record, the UN's weather agency said on Wednesday as it recounted a tale of rising seas, crippling droughts and floods since January.
"The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record," the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reported on the sidelines of the UN climate talks in Lima.
Provisional data for 2014 shows that 14 out of the 15 warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, it added.
"There...