Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds
Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS
human-caused global heating
Climate crisis costing $16M an hour in extreme weather damage
A new analysis shows at least $2.8 trillion in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heat waves.
Global heating will push billions outside the livable zone
Scientists warn the world is on track for 2.7 C of heating with current action plans and this would mean two billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29 C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.
‘I am an optimistic person’: The scientist who studies catastrophes
Friederike Otto, a member of the world’s only rapid reaction force of climate scientists, on looking into the apocalypse of extreme weather.