The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s assessment report issues catastrophic warning if immediate climate action is not taken by governments across the globe.
Across many chapters and sections of the new IPCC report, glaciers help to tell the story of climate change’s global impacts and how communities are responding.
An interview with Ben Orlove, lead author on the report’s chapter on decision-making around climate adaptation.
IRI climate scientist Daniel Ruiz Carrascal shares his experiences working on this globally influential report, as well as his thoughts about how he hopes it will affect research and action in the future.
Will overshooting 1.5°C of warming push us over climate tipping points, triggering irreversible and abrupt changes?
Almost all of the world’s glaciers are in retreat.
A conversation on the new UN climate-panel warning with a top analyst of the politics of global risk – and a bonus roundtable with IPCC scientists.
The remedy is the same, cut vulnerability now and emissions now. Are we listening?
Pierre Dutrieux, a Lamont-Doherty oceanographer and 2019 Climate and Life Fellow, discusses his Antarctic research and what the new IPCC report says about sea level rise.
The report shows that every degree of warming matters for livelihoods in most communities.