Climate History

Six-fold jump in polar ice loss lifts global oceans

While less visible than climate-enhanced hurricanes, sea level rise may ultimately prove the most devastating of global warming impacts.

Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s – scientists

Scientists say Earth is probably the hottest it has been during the Holocene — the past 11,500 years or so — making it the warmest period since the dawn of civilisation.

Marine life under threat from plummeting oxygen levels

Around 700 sites have been identified globally with low oxygen levels - up from only 45 in the 1960s, says the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Saudi Arabia blocks UN oceans report over 1.5C global warming cap - sources

The report was set to conclude that global warming and pollution caused by humanity's carbon-heavy footprint are ravaging Earth's oceans and icy regions in ways that could unleash even more misery on a global scale.

Climate Orientalism and the Middle East

The latest heatwave demonstrates that climate change is a transnational threat that requires transcontinental cooperation.

Eat less meat, stop exploiting land to avoid hungry future, UN warns

In a landmark report, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights the need to protect what remains of tropical forests as a bulkhead against future warming.

July 2019 hottest month globally recorded – EU

According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, every month so far in 2019 ranks among the four warmest on record for the month in question.

Two-metre sea level rise 'plausible' by 2100 - study

A group of the world's leading ice scientists released an expert judgement which said the area of land lost to the ocean could be equivalent to that of France, Germany, Spain and Britain combined and would displace more than 180 million people.

Ocean heat hits record high, UN says

In its latest State of the Climate overview, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reaffirms that the past four years have been the hottest on record - figures previously announced in provisional drafts of the flagship report.

Students worldwide skip class to demand action on climate

The coordinated 'school strike' was inspired by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who began holding solitary demonstrations outside the Swedish Parliament last year.

Global warming 'undercuts all of the world’s other crises'

Cars, plastic, electricity, hurricanes, dead coral, heat and on the list goes. This is why more writers and scientists are being urged to piece the puzzle together for the world and declare this the single most pressing issue of our time.

2018 was Earth's 'fourth hottest year' on record

Twenty warmest years "all in the last 22," scientists say in a UN report, with weather extremes in 2018 including wildfires in California and Greece, drought in South Africa and floods in Kerala, India.