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. |