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Report warns climate change is 'widespread, rapid'

Climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying, according to an influential UN report released this morning.
World • 09 Aug 21

What does the UN climate report say?

A new UN report warns of the unprecedented changes needed by society to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Here is what you need to know.
Environment • 08 Oct 18

IPCC calls for decisive climate change action

A major new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has expressed with greater certainty than ever before that human influences are the dominant cause of climate change and that they are growing.
News • 02 Nov 14

Climate change increases conflict risk, hunger: UN

A new report on the impact of climate change from the UN's expert panel has warned that soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, floods and migration this century.
News • 31 Mar 14

Warming and acidification threaten world's oceans

The world's oceans are under greater threat than previously believed from a "deadly trio" of global warming, declining oxygen levels and acidification, an international study has found.
News • 03 Oct 13

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