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The 'safe' threshold for global warming will be passed in just 6 years, scientists say
New research suggests we have just six years left to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and two decades to keep temperatures below the 2 C threshold in the Paris Agreement.
This was the hottest summer ever recorded on Earth
June through August 2023 were the hottest three months ever recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Did the Tonga eruption cause this year's extreme heat?
The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption may have contributed to this year's heat, but it's not causing climate change.
We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age
Methane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006 and accelerating at the same breakneck speed as when Earth's climate has flipped from a glacial to an interglacial period.
'The stage was now set for the birth and growth of desert dunes': How the Sahara turned from a vast forest to the arid landscape we see today
"A very remarkable series of events took place during the late Miocene between 5.96 and 5.33 million years ago."
15 unexpected effects of climate change
From shrinking goats to a dimmer Earth, here are some of the lesser-known impacts of rising global temperatures.
19 'mass extinctions' had CO2 levels we're now veering toward, study warns
The research looked at peaks in biodiversity loss and their relationship with atmospheric CO2, finding 50 events over the last 534 million years that can be considered mass extinctions.
Will the US run out of water?
"The issue is not about running out of water, it's about having water in the right place," Lis Mullin Bernhardt, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), told Live Science.
