In a Perspective, the authors suggest that the social and humanitarian impacts of overshooting the Paris Agreement's aspirational goal of a 1.5 degrees Celsius rise in global mean temperature remain largely unknown, despite ...
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The weather patterns that produced some of Europe's most extreme heat waves over the past three decades could prove far more lethal if they strike in today's hotter climate, pushing weekly deaths toward levels seen during ...
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Nov 18, 2025
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We must prepare for a future of frequent, deadly heat waves, which will worsen in severity the longer it takes to reach net zero, new research has shown.
Environment
Nov 17, 2025
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A global analysis of coral bleaching across 81 countries reveals that reefs in the equatorial Coral Triangle region were exposed to the weakest marine heat waves over the past two decades and may function as safe havens for ...
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Nov 17, 2025
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A research team has found that summer rainfall in the Arctic would increase by about 17% under 2°C global warming, approximately 16% of which is attributed to sea ice retreat. Their findings were published in Geophysical ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2025
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Wheat crops prioritize water loss during extreme future climate conditions, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. The study, led by Dr. Robert Caine and Dr. Holly Croft from the School of Biosciences ...
Ecology
Nov 17, 2025
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The world's climate leaders are conceding that Earth's warming will shoot past a hard limit they set a decade ago in hopes of keeping the planet out of a danger zone. But they're not conceding defeat.
Environment
Nov 14, 2025
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Soils release approximately 40–60 petagrams (Pg) of carbon annually into the atmosphere through microbial metabolism. Climate warming is projected to further enhance soil microbial respiration, intensifying positive carbon–climate ...
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Nov 13, 2025
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"The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5°C in the next few years," UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently admitted ahead of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference.
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Nov 13, 2025
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Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from lakes and reservoirs risk doubling by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a new study from Linköping University, Sweden, and NASA Ames Research Center in ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2025
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