Last week, hundreds of scientists, policymakers and journalists flocked to the University of Exeter to attend an international conference on “tippi... Read More
In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the UK city of Exeter recently played host to the second international conference on “tipping... Read More
Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels. This is the stark picture that emerges in ... Read More
Human-caused emissions of aerosols – tiny, light‑scattering particles produced mainly by burning fossil fuels – have long acted as an invi... Read More
The UK government’s “high-risk” research funding agency last week announced that it will invest £57m ($76m) in a new solar geoengineering rese... Read More
Tipping elements within the Earth system are increasingly well understood. Scientists have identified more than 25 parts of the Earth’s cl... Read More
The rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing is now outpacing the pathways set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that li... Read More
In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, h... Read More
With average global temperatures set to see another record high this year, the chances of holding warming to no more than 1.5C continue to dwindle. ... Read More
Ahead of the Paris Olympic Games this summer, the organising committee was concerned about two principal diseases: Covid, which Europe is fully famil... Read More
Despite progress since the Paris Agreement, a peak in greenhouse gas emissions is only just within sight – and time is fast running out to stay b... Read More
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