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The climate crisis has already negatively affected places like Bangladesh, where river erosion has cost people their homes.Credit: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Barcroft Media/Getty
Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
March 4, 2022

Latest IPCC climate report warns that rising greenhouse-gas emissions could soon outstrip the ability of many communities to adapt. The negative impacts of climate change are mounting far faster than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to the latest report from a Unit

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Marshall Islands atolls. credit - Vainuupo Jungblut
There's no time left for empty promises says Pacific climate activist
August 13, 2021

The Pacific's coral reef systems and coastal fisheries are set for extinction if wealthy nations don't drastically and immediately cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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A resident watches a wildfire on Evia island, Greece, as the region endures its worst heatwave in decades, which experts have linked to the climate crisis. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images
Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
August 11, 2021

Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”, climate scientists have warned.

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte says the scientists behind the IPCC climate assessment are doing their best to maintain momentum. Credit: Laurence Geai for Nature
Can the world’s most influential climate report carry on?
April 17, 2020

With science around the world grinding to a halt as a result of efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is struggling to keep the world’s next big global-warming report on track.

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Polar ice caps. Source: kxan.com
New IPCC report issues dire warning that choices made now are critical for climate change
September 27, 2019

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued their latest report on climate change.

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Land use a big part of world’s climate problem – and solution: IPCC
August 9, 2019

A landmark new report from the world’s scientists has warned the pressures humans are putting on land are enormous, unsustainable and are adding to the climate crisis. Link to full article below. 

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