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A climate scientist explains the forces as La Niña are behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.
There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in a bucket of hot (...)
Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme
The world’s chances of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown are diminishing rapidly, as we enter “uncharted territory of destruction” through our failure to cut (...)
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study.
It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been (...)
While official data is yet to be released, this year’s Mediterranean marine heatwave will likely have devastating ecological consequences.
The ocean sustains all life on our planet. It provides food to eat and oxygen to breathe, while playing a key role in moderating our climate. But marine (...)
Storms brought fast, destructive flooding to the mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, just a few weeks after the Yellowstone River flooded.
Heavy rains set off flash flooding in the mountains of southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee on July 12, 2022. Rivers quickly inundated homes and a (...)
New research on young, healthy humans found the body begins overheating when exposed to temperatures and humidity lower than previously believed.
Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes – lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One question a (...)
Andreas Malm is a Swedish ecosocialist activist and author of several books on fossil capital, global warming and the need to change the course of events initiated by the burning of fossil fuels over the last two centuries of capitalist development. The Jeunes Anticapitalistes (the youth branch (...)
Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely.
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The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes.
It’s (...)
The probability of one of the next five years surpassing the limit is now 50%, up from 20% in 2020.
The year the world breaches for the first time the 1.5C global heating limit set by international governments is fast approaching, a new forecast shows.
The probability of one of the next five (...)
Alan Thornett argues that life on planet Earth is facing a perfect storm.
The precarious agreement from COP26 in Glasgow – which was barely enough to keep the goal of a 1.5°C maximum global temperature increase alive last year – is being overwhelmed by the fall-out from Putin’s brutal invasion of (...)
The world’s food system was under strain even before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now — compounded by the war’s effect on trade and a corresponding spike in global fuel prices — it faces two dangerous and intertwined crises.
In the short term, Russia’s war on Ukraine increases the risk of extreme hunger (...)
One would think that, given the present convergence of crises – a runaway climate; a global pandemic that has already killed at least an estimated 6.18 million people around the world since 2020 and is still killing thousands daily; and a horrific war in Europe – governments would start to see (...)
This article discusses the draft of the Working Group 3 Summary for Policymakers from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPCC), submitted for discussion and approval to 195 governments prior to its release on 4th April 2020.
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The report was mangled by various (...)
Rainforests looked after by communities absorb twice as much carbon as other lands, analysis shows.
Paris climate agreement goals will fail unless the rights of Indigenous people who protect rainforests are honoured, according to a new report.
Forest lands stewarded by Indigenous people and (...)
New data suggests forests help keep the Earth at least half of a degree cooler, protecting us from the effects of climate crisis
The world’s forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate crisis than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local (...)
The report of the [IPCC’s Working Group II (WG II)->https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2 on Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change sends out a strident cry of alarm: the disaster is more serious than projected by the models, its effects are manifesting themselves more quickly and all the risks (...)
This text was one of three presented to open a discussion on the international situation at the International Committee meeting and which we agreed will together form the basis for our future elaboration. 1. Pull the emergency brake
The ecocidal accumulation of capital threatens the very (...)
Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look Up” is no exception – in fact, people ignoring or flat out denying scientific evidence is the point.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play astronomers who make a literally Earth-shattering discovery and then try (...)
I’ve broken down on TV too, trying to explain the horror of the climate crisis to those who wield power and do nothing
No wonder journalists have slated it. They’ve produced a hundred excuses not to watch the climate breakdown satire Don’t Look Up: it’s “blunt”, it’s “shrill”, it’s “smug”. But they (...)
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