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The loss of Arctic sea ice is unprecedented in extent and rate since 1850.
June 2016 was the warmest June on record. Monthly temperature records have been broken for 14 consecutive months.
Capping warming at 2 degrees.
Urgent action is required to address risks arising from climate change in the UK.
June 2016 was the warmest June on record for U.S.
Climate change may shrink Adelie penguin range by end of century.
UK wildlife calendar reshuffled by climate change.
Reducing fossil fuel emissions and improving adaptation efforts can reduce heat-related deaths in New York City.
Crop breeding is not keeping pace with climate change.
Pervasive ice retreat in West Antarctica.
May 2016 was the warmest May on record. Monthly temperature records have been broken for 13 consecutive months.
Barrier Reef rodent is first mammal declared extinct due to climate change.
Carbon dioxide surpassed 400 ppm at the South Pole for the first time in 4 million years.
May 2016 sets new records.
Reducing carbon emissions could cut risk of record-breaking summertime heat in half.
Globalization made economic production more vulnerable to climate change.
Average Arctic sea ice extent of May 2016 was the lowest May extent in the satellite record.
Warming larger than previously anticipated with high cumulative greenhouse gas emissions.
City-integrated renewable energy for urban sustainability.
April 2016 was the warmest April on record. Monthly temperature records have been broken for 12 consecutive months.
What does the Paris Agreement mean for the oceans?
Global warming Is unlikely to reduce winter deaths.
Widespread loss of ocean oxygen to become noticeable in 2030s.
March 2016 was the warmest March on record. Monthly temperature records have been broken for 11 consecutive months.
Scientific consensus on climate change confirmed again.
'Climate-smart soils' may help reduce carbon emissions.
March was 4th warmest for the contiguous U.S.
Unusually early Greenland melt.
Burning of fossil fuel causes most sea level rise.
Greenland shed approximately 280 billion tonnes of ice per year between 2003 and 2013.
Reducing food waste could help mitigate climate change.
What is ocean acidification?
Climate change worsens risks to public health.
Sea-level rise could nearly double over earlier estimates in next 100 years.
Australia's March mean temperature warmest on record.
Another record low for Arctic sea ice maximum winter extent.
Human carbon release rate is unprecedented in the past 66 million years of Earth’s history.
State of the Climate: Record Heat and Weather Extremes
Monthly and seasonal temperature records smashed.
Science can estimate influence of climate change on some types of extremes events.
Millions projected to be at risk from sea level rise in the continental United States.
Winter was record warm for the contiguous U.S.
22-year sea level rise observed by satellites.
Record annual increase of carbon dioxide observed at Mauna Loa for 2015.
More extreme precipitation in a warming world.
Scientists traced the fingerprint on record-breaking temperatures back to the 1930s.
Impact of climate change on food production could cause over 500,000 extra deaths by 2050.
Regional climate change.
Greenland's ice Is getting darker, increasing risk of melting.
Developing clean energy while avoiding increasing the pressure on global water resources.
Observing the oceans - 15 years of Argo measurements
Arctic sea ice was at a satellite-record low for the second month in a row.
Sweltering heat waves that strike once every 20 years could become yearly events by 2075.
Drought in Eastern Mediterranean worst of past 900 years.
Winter 2015/16 was a record breaking season for the UK.
Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change.
Sea-level rise in 20th century was fastest in 3,000 years.
January 2016 was the warmest on record for January.
Average Arctic sea ice extent of January 2016 was the lowest January extent in the satellite record.
Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods.
Antarctic ice safety band at risk.
The southwestern US dries as wet weather systems become rarer.
Man-made climate change helped cause south of England floods.
Fire weather seasons across the globe getting longer.
Recent summer temperatures in Europe are likely the warmest of the last two millennia.
Rapid, affordable energy transformation possible.
2015 is hottest year on record.
Record warm years almost certainly due to human-made climate change.
Global temperature in 2015 reached a new height.
Global ocean warming accelerated in the past two decades.
Worldwide electricity production vulnerable to climate and water resource change.
Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age.
Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries.
December 2015 has broken records both for rainfall and temperature in the UK.
Climate change is the most serious threat to polar bear survival.
Climate change rapidly warming world's lakes.
Protected and stabilized shorelines can reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere while increasing coastal resilience.
Estimating Greenland Ice Sheet's contribution to global mean sea level rise by direct observations in the past 110 years.
Tracking Arctic environmental changes: an update for 2015
The year 2015 will be the second hottest year on record for Europe.
November 2015 was the warmest November on record since 1880. The global average temperature of January-November 2015 was also record high.
A huge Greenland glacier is losing 5 billion tonnes of mass every year into the North Atlantic Ocean.
Can we rely on the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere to combat climate change?
The Arctic is the fastest-warming large region on the planet.
Arctic sea ice extent averaged for November 2015 was the sixth lowest in the satellite data record.
2015 likely to be warmest on record, 2011-2015 warmest five year period.
global mean surface temperature in 2015 is looking set to reach 1 °C above the pre-industrial level.
October 2015 was the warmest October on record since 1880. The global average temperature of January-October 2015 was also record high.
The atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases hit another record high in 2014.
Human-caused climate change increased the severity of many extreme events in 2014.
September 2015 was the hottest September on record since 1880. The global average temperature of January-September 2015 was also record high.
Minimum Arctic sea ice extent in 2015 was the fourth lowest in the satellite record. All four of the lowest extents have occurred since 2007.
August 2015 was the hottest August on record since 1880. The average temperatures of January-August 2015 and June-August 2015 were also record high.
July 2015 was the hottest July on record since 1880. The global mean temperature of January-July 2015 was also record high.
Increasing risk to global food supply disruptions and price spikes could result from extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts and floods.
June 2015 was the hottest June on record since 1880. The global mean temperature of January-June 2015 was also record high.
Arctic sea ice extent for June 2015 was the third lowest in the satellite record. June snow cover for the Northern Hemisphere was the second lowest on record.
May 2015 was the warmest May since 1880. The temperatures of March-May 2015 and January-May 2015 were also record high.
Data show no recent slowdown in global warming.
Global impact of reduced solar activity will be small - a cooling of around -0.1 °C.