With 2023 temperatures hitting record highs, climate-driven health crises are rising, endangering lives and putting immense pressure on global health systems.
Study: The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-... [7361 chars]
In October, the storm surge from Hurricane Milton flooded 15-year-old Michael Miranda’s street in Land O’ Lakes, Fla. Photograph by Meridith Kohut Growing Up in Climate Chaos When you’re a teenager, everything can feel like a crisis. But for these te... [12593 chars]
Human-caused climate change made Spain’s rainfall about 12% heavier and doubled the likelihood of a storm as intense as this week’s deluge of Valencia, according to a rapid but partial analysis Thursday by World Weather Attribution, a group of intern... [3323 chars]
Residents gathering next to a pile of cars on October 31st, 2024, after flash floods affected the town of Massanassa in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain. Photograph: Jose Jordan/AFP
Ferocious storms in Europe are common but their pattern is chan... [3580 chars]
Global warming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age, a new study suggests.
The weakening currents triggered a cascade of effects, resulting in a dramatic cooling of the Nordic Seas — the Greenland, Iceland and... [4709 chars]
Paris — Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2023, the United Nations warned on Monday, saying countries are falling "miles short" of what's needed to curb devastating global warming.
Levels of the three main greenh... [3546 chars]
A United Nations report warned that current climate policies could result in global warming exceeding 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, which is more than twice the target set nearly a decade ago.
The annual Emissi... [1625 chars]
The chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C is "virtually zero" on current trends, according to the UN's environment body.
This year's Emissions Gap Report finds that emissions of greenhouse gasses in 2023 were the highest on record.
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A recent United Nations report reveals that global warming might exceed 3 degrees Celsius by the century's end if current climate policies persist. This surpasses the 1.5-degree target set by the Paris Agreement, potentially leading to severe environ... [658 chars]