Global World News Global Warming Update Earth Briefly Surpasses Key Climate Threshold For First Time

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

New reports paint picture of an ‘extremely dangerous’ future with warming expected to blow past key limit

Melting ice sheets. Massive flooding. Dead coral reefs. Humanity is careening toward an untenable future as global temperatures rise, scientists warn ... Read More

Climate and environment updates: Earth to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius warming

Ten years after nearly every nation on the planet signed the historic Paris Agreement, a new United Nations report warns that the world is on track to officially breach the agreement's 1.5 degrees ... Read More

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

Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered vivid dispatches of life on the front line of the climate crisis Friday as world leaders gathered on the edge of the imperiled Amazon ... Read More

Earth enters 'new reality' as coral reefs reach first climate tipping point

"In the two years since the first Global Tipping Points Report, there has been a radical global acceleration in some areas, including the uptake of solar power and electric vehicles. But we need to do ... Read More