CLIMATE HEALTH next three years surpass 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit Our planet is speeding toward a dangerous temperature milestone, we could surpass it before the end of this decade.What’s happening? if the Earth continues its current levels of pollution and…
CHEMICALS IN OUR WATER. use of pharmaceuticals in America’s water — is introducing even more toxic “forever chemicals” into the environment through wastewater and large municipal wastewater treatment plants are not capable of fully filtering them out. The plants’ inability…
COP27 MOVES ON loss and damage – a pooled fund for countries most affected by climate change – The fund comes with many unknowns. What will be the criteria to trigger a payout? Where will the money come from, and…
Global Carbon Budget. to avert crossing the 1.5-degree warming threshold, according to an analysis The annual Global Carbon Budget, which analyzes the maximum emissions under which the world can stay on track to avert that point, projected that more…
stratospheric cooling ends up intensifying the greenhouse effect it causes. carbon dioxide is getting pound-for-pound stronger at heating up our planet the more of it that we pump into the atmosphere. New research has found that the greenhouse effect of…
rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphereThe level of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, has been rising since the Industrial Revolution and is at its highest in about 4m years. The rate of the rise is even more striking, the…
COP 28 Overview. Centers on “global stocktake”, the first assessment of global progress in implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. The findings are stark: the world is not on track to limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C by the end of…
COP28, the annual international climate summit convened by the United Nations.With time quickly running out to prevent fossil fuel pollution from causing irreversible harm, discussions between global leaders, negotiators, climate advocates and industry representatives have shifted to how the world…
1 / 2 World Has 14% Chance of Keeping Warming Below 1.5C in Best Case The world only has a tiny chance of keeping global warming below a key threshold that could cause several climate tipping points to be reached,…
the global average temperature was more than 2 degrees Celsius hotter than levels before industrialization, The Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on the planet…
