Almost 1 meter of sea level rise and the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is anticipated by the end of the century.
Coastal flooding along with huge losses of ice and snow are becoming more extreme as oceans warm and acidify while frozen parts of the planet melt faster, the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. climate panel reported.
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, concluded on Wednesday in its first major report to focus on water that huge changes already are occurring around the 71% of the planet covered by oceans and 10% covered in ice and snow, known as the cryosphere.
Urgent early warning systems and urban heat protections are needed with extreme heat events becoming more frequent.
A new report from the U.N. weather agency shows Asia has been heating up nearly twice as fast as the global average.
Much of the financial angst this year was caused by the absence and impending withdrawal of the United States.
The head of the International Peace Institute praised the treaty negotiators for their 'amazing' critical problem-solving.
Experts call it a 'slow-moving global catastrophe' for food, energy, and trade that will require systematic monitoring.
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Financial aid and emergency relief deliveries have dropped 60% globally, as shelter programs are critically diminished.
