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1.5 degrees

New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’

Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world.

By Bob Berwyn

A construction worker cools off with water as a heatwave hits France in Nantes on June 19, 2025. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images
A view of Meta’s newly constructed data center on July 18, 2024, in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

AI Is Pushing Climate Goals Out of Reach, New Reports Say

By Jake Bolster

A slurry mix of sand and seawater is pumped onto the main public beach during a sand replenishment project for eroding shoreline related to sea level rise on Nov. 21, 2024 in San Clemente, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn

By Bob Berwyn

Cars are piled in the street with other debris after flash floods hit Valencia, Spain on Oct. 30, 2024. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images

An Economist’s Dire Forecast About Just How Much Climate Change Will Impact GDP

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

James Hansen, a former NASA climate scientist, led the team of researchers that documented an increasing rate of global warming since 2010. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration

By Bob Berwyn

The sun sets on Sept. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles where temperatures hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38C). Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Global Warming Surges Well Past 1.5-Degree Mark in 2024

By Bob Berwyn

A woman walks along a flooded street on Nov. 2 in Valencia, Spain, after heavy rain hit large parts of the country. Scientists attributed the unprecedented flooding event to the rise in global average temperatures. Credit: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

What the Earth’s Recent Heat Uptick Could Mean for the Climate Fight

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

The 2024 U.N. climate summit, COP29, is set to take place this month in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

9 Years After the Paris Agreement, the UN Confronts the World’s Failure to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

The COP 29 climate conference starts on Nov. 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Aziz Karimov/Getty Images

New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show The World Is Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action

By Bob Berwyn

Credit: UN Photo/Pierre Albouy, CC BY-SA 2.0

UN Secretary-General Says the World Must Turbocharge the Fossil Fuel Phaseout

By Bob Berwyn

Tourists shield themselves from the sun while visiting the Palace Museum during a heat wave on July 6 in Beijing, China. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

Average Global Temperature Has Warmed 1.5 Degrees Celsius Above Pre-industrial Levels for 12 Months in a Row

By Bob Berwyn

Activists march in protest on day nine of the COP28 Climate Conference on Dec. 9, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash

By Bob Berwyn

Demonstrators hold a sign reading Degrowth Now after they blocked the A12 highway during an Extinction Rebellion protest on March 11, 2023 in The Hague, Netherlands. Credit: Michel Porro/Getty Images

New Research Explores a Restorative Climate Path for the Earth

By Bob Berwyn

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President of the UNFCCC COP28, attends day 13 of the climate conference on Dec. 13 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The conference has gone into an extra day as delegations continue to negotiate over the wording of the final agreement. Credit: Fadel Dawod/Getty Images

COP28 Does Not Deliver Clear Path to Fossil Fuel Phase Out

By Bob Berwyn

Activists protest for equitable global food production on day 11 of the COP28 Climate Conference as negotiations go into their final phase on Dec. 11 in Dubai. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A New UN ‘Roadmap’ Lays Out a Global Vision for Food Security and Emissions Reductions

By Georgina Gustin

"Tomorrow?" is written on a wall at the COP28 site in Dubai. Credit: Hannes P. Albert/picture alliance via Getty Images

Scientists to COP28: ‘We’re Clearly in The Danger Zone’

By Bob Berwyn

At COP28, More and More Scientists Say Overshooting 1.5 Degrees Is ‘Inevitable’

By Kristoffer Tigue

Participants in a demonstration at the UN Climate Summit COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt hold placards reading "Pay up for loss and damage" and "1.5," the temperature to which the Paris Agreement aspired to limit global warming. Credit: Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images

Is COP27 the End of Hopes for Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Celsius?

By Bob Berwyn

In an aerial view, meltwater flows away from the retreating Reindeer Glacier on Sept. 8, 2021 near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Earth Has a 50-50 Chance of Hitting a Grim Global Warming Milestone in the Next Five Years

By Bob Berwyn

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