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Humanity finds itself on a giant ship heading for catastrophy. You can contribute to alter the course of that ship, or turn a blind eye.
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The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
The planet has just experienced the most widespread coral bleaching event ever recorded, lasting 33 months into 2025. Scientists warn that at 1.5C of global warming, up to 90% of coral reefs could be lost. Ninety per cent. And 1.5C is not lingering in the distance – it’s extremely close.
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European megafires show how fast climate-driven extreme heat and dry landscapes can turn wildfires into devastating national disasters.
Humanity continuing to burn colossal amounts of coal, oil and gas is making these conditions more dangerous, and these megafires more deadly and destructive.
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Countries are being “held hostage” by their reliance on fossil fuels, a former UN climate chief has warned, describing the health impacts of climate change as “the mother of all injustices”.
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The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped.
Policymakers and the public remain largely unaware of the risks posed by what would effectively be a point-of-no-return transition.
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The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026, analysis has found.
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The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned.
We must place true value on the environment and go beyond GDP as a measure of human progress and wellbeing.
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In 2024, just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis.
While clean energy and electrification is already receiving nearly twice the investment of fossil fuels globally, carbon majors are clinging on to outdated, polluting products.
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Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth tax, if new tax rules are agreed under the UN.
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Hundreds of millions of people can no longer safely go about their daily lives outside during the hottest parts of the year, and those people are overwhelmingly in countries that have contributed least to the problem.
Every fraction of a degree of additional warming will expand these impacts.
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By the late 21st century, most regions in Africa will stop having occasional heatwaves and will suffer from extreme heat lasting most of the year. A study shows that by 2065-2100, many parts of Africa (apart from Madagascar) could experience heatwaves on 250-300 days per year.
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A climate crisis that threatens the planet’s capacity to sustain life is helping to stoke conflicts from drought-stricken Africa to a defrosting Arctic, as well as the rise of far-right populism in Europe and the US.
“It’s like rising damp in your house – you don’t know it’s there, but it’s changing everything.”
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Electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India last year, after the boom in clean energy across both countries was more than enough to meet their rising demand for energy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/coal-power-generation-falls-china-india-since-1970s
As the world speeds towards 2C of global heating, the risks of extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points are increasing fast. But current economic models used by governments and financial institutions entirely miss such shocks. This is because the models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the climate system into uncharted territory.
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Chronic ocean heating is fuelling a “staggering and deeply concerning” loss of marine life, a study has found, with fish levels falling by 7.2% from as little as 0.1C of warming per decade.
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Global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth’s temperature in 1880.
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Globally, the research found ocean levels are an average of 30cm higher than previously believed, but in some areas of the global south, including south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100-150cm higher than previously thought.
Following a relative sea level rise of 1 metre, it is estimated that 37% more coastal areas will fall below sea level, affecting up to 132 million individuals.
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As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are considering empowering their state prosecutors to sue major polluters for their role in those rising costs.
We know that the years ahead are going to be dramatically more dangerous, tragically, when it comes to climate disasters, and we can’t allow our residents, our small businesses, to be left holding the bag.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/proposal-fossil-fuel-companies-insurance-costs
Over the past two decades, seaweed blooms have expanded by a staggering 13.4% a year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific, with the most dramatic increases occurring after 2008, according to researchers at the University of South Florida.
This shift could darken the waters below, changing their ecology and geochemistry, and may also accelerate climate breakdown.
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In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before.
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to a combination of a cool winter, the explosive growth of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, and higher natural gas prices.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/us-carbon-emissions-increase-2025
If you stop burning fossil fuels, one of the most immediate benefits will be the contribution to reduce the 7 million deaths that are occurring due to exposure to air pollution.
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In 2022 was de temperatuur van de oceanen de hoogste ooit gemeten. En in het voorjaar van 2023 was het alweer warmer. Zeewater warmt veel langzamer op dan lucht. Dat maakt de opwarming van de oceanen nog dreigender.
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https://www.duurzaamnieuws.nl/ook-de-temperatuur-van-de-oceanen-stapelt-records/