Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C How mountain glaciers will react to temporarily overshooting 1.5 °C of warming is poorly understood. Here the authors s
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Empower communities to fight climate change at grassroots level Yifan Zhong News & Views|12 May 2025 North America’s birds are declining where they should be thriving The steepest drops in number are seen in areas that host the largest populations — a trend observed for more than 80% of bi...
Last summer the much-ignored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put out a report stating that the Earth’s average temperature will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, a decade earlier than earlier projected. Even if the 1.5C target is achieved, the report says it would still ...
Scientists estimate that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would reduce the odds of initiating the most dangerous and irreversible effects of climate change. While a number of analytic perspectives explain how greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions would need to evolve to achieve a 1.5-degree pathway,...
Protecting health against the effects of climate change will be next year's theme for World Health Day (7 April 2008) and WHO's 60th anniversary celebrations. Carlos Corvalan talks about WHO's work with countries to help them tackle those effects and how climate change affects people's health...
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The secretary-general said that "even the most ambitious action" cannot erase the fact that "the situation is already bad" and in some places irreversible. "Adaptation and mitigation must be pursued with equal force and urgency ... adaptation investments need to be dramatically scaled up to kee...
That makes China central to the world's fast-evaporating hopes of cutting fumes from use of petroleum and coal before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible. Kerry, the former secretary of state and Biden's global climate envoy, has led repeated calls, online m...
The Intergovernmental Panel on global climate change predicts an extra rise of between 1.4°C and 5.8°C by the top of the century. Climate change could therefore rather be the knock-out punch for several species which are already under stress from overfishing and habitat loss. A study has ...