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The fast fix for global warming that the UN climate summit can't ignore

Despite rapid progress in clean energy and electric vehicles, the world is still warming faster than ever. The good news is that we already have powerful ways to reduce the warming rate—if governments ... Read More

Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn’t stayed on it

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Scientists say Earth's warming has outpaced efforts to reduce fossil fuel pollution that came out of the ... Read More

COP30: The latest in climate science, from faster warming to coral collapse

With the pace of climate change speeding up, extreme weather and other impacts are taking an increasing toll on populations and environments across the globe. Here are some of the developments this ye ... Read More

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ... Read More

Climate summit hears from countries suffering from harms, destruction linked to global warming

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered searing dispatches of life on the front line of a warming planet Friday, as world leaders gathered on the edge ... Read More

It’s been a dangerous decade since the Paris Climate Agreement, but there’s still reason for hope

It’s easy to frame the 10 years since Paris as a failure. But the reality is more complicated, writes John D. Sutter. As COP30 begins, the world has many reasons for hope. Read More

Climate tipping points reached sooner than scientists anticipated

This year, Earth has arguably reached its first climate tipping point. A report was issued and signed by 160 scientists from 23 countries, revealing that previously considered distant changes are now ... Read More

Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says

All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, ... Read More

Climate change is turning global wildfires into monsters

Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our world's weather systems it's getting harder and more important to get right. Subscribe to our ... Read More

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters. Critics of mainstream climate science and allies ... Read More