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The world is set to breach the 1.5°C global warming threshold within a matter of years, according to a new UN Environment Programme report, with even the most optimistic modelling indicating that warming is likely to temporarily exceed the more ambitious temperature goal agreed under the Paris Agreement. The report,…

Climate scientists now aim to minimize time spent above the limit from the Paris Agreement. Gary Hershorn/Getty Images The United Nations Environment Program has released a report with grim news about the planet's rising temperatures. The group's climate scientists have determined that global temperatures will rise more than 1.5 degrees…

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming. A report released Wednesday by the United Nations Environment Programme reveals that the planet will soon exceed the tem…Read More

FILE - Activists participate in a demonstration for phasing out fossil fuels at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Sergei Grits/AP Photo/Sergei Grits In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to…

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Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of climate “overshoot,” scientists warned Wednesday in a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme. The report, Limiting Overshoot, projects that global temperatures will exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming threshold identified in the Paris…

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Nepal's foreign minister and the UN climate chief on Saturday warned of the growing threat from global warming to the Himalayas, as rescuers race to find thousands missing after torrential flooding along the border with China. The US Geological Survey said the disaster on Wednesday near the high-altitude border was…

Researchers analyzing modern and fossil corals from the Galápagos Islands concluded that global warming has intensified El Niño cycles over the last 40 years, making them more extreme than natural variations seen during the previous millenium. Their study, published Thursday in Science, revealed sharper swings in sea surface temperatures in…