Climate change causing widespread and irreversible impacts, says IPCC

A hotter planet means a hungrier planet, climate report warns

Nearly a third of the world's crop fields and livestock rangeland will be unsuitable for food production by the end of this century if climate-warming emissions aren't heavily curbed, a report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says.

Rapidly increasing climate change poses a rising threat to mental health, says IPCC

For the first time, an IPCC climate report has assessed evidence that weather and climate extremes are already affecting mental health — and are likely to worsen.

A hotter planet means a hungrier planet, climate report warns

The future of food is troubling.

IPCC report: Climate change a threat to human wellbeing, health of planet

It is now unequivocal that "climate change is a threat to the human well-being and planetary health" and "any further delay in concerted anticipatory ..

An 'atlas of human suffering': United Nations publishes grim new report on climate change

A landmark UN report warned Monday that time had nearly run out to ensure a "liveable future" for all, detailing a horrifying "atlas of human suffering" and warning that far worse was to come.Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, insect-borne disease, deadly heatwaves and megastorms, water shortag...

Climate Change Poses Grave Threat to a Healthy Planet

An expert group of 270 climate scientists warns the dire impacts of climate change soon will be irreversible unless governments act decisively to tackle these imminent global threats. Hoesung Lee, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, does not mince words. He said the stakes of our planet have never been higher. “Human activities have warmed the planet at a rate not seen in at least the past 2,000 years. We are on course to …