sea level rise

World Experienced 152 Unprecedented Climate Events in 2024: WMO Report

World Experienced 152 Unprecedented Climate Events in 2024: WMO Report

According to the latest State of the Global Climate 2024 report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the world experienced 152 unprecedented and 297 unusual extreme events related to climate change last year.  Topping the list of extreme events were heat waves, with 137 events, followed by extreme rain and wet spells (115 events), […]

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    Activists and Vulnerable Nations Condemn U.S. Arguments Against Climate Obligations at ICJ Hearing

    Activists and Vulnerable Nations Condemn U.S. Arguments Against Climate Obligations at ICJ Hearing

    Testimony from the United States during the ongoing International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing on Wednesday evoked anger from climate activists and vulnerable nations, as the planet’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter argued against nations being legally obligated to take measures to fight the climate crisis. The oral arguments were part of the historic climate hearing […]

    UN’s Top Court Begins Hearings on Landmark Climate Case

    UN’s Top Court Begins Hearings on Landmark Climate Case

    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) — the United Nations’ highest court — began hearings on Monday in the biggest case in its history. The hearings involve what legal obligations States have when it comes to climate change. The proceedings represent efforts by the international community to formulate a legal framework to address the climate […]

    ‘Existential Threat’: Tuvalu’s Fight to Survive, Even If It Sinks

    ‘Existential Threat’: Tuvalu’s Fight to Survive, Even If It Sinks

    Rising sea levels threaten to completely submerge Tuvalu in the coming decades. Facing an unprecedented crisis, officials are not only trying to preserve a shrinking country but attempting to ensure the nation, as well as its culture and traditions, will still exist, even if its land doesn’t. By 2050. It’s estimated that about half of […]

    UN Chief Guterres Issues ‘Global SOS’ to World Leaders to ‘Save Our Seas’

    UN Chief Guterres Issues ‘Global SOS’ to World Leaders to ‘Save Our Seas’

    Speaking from Tonga on Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a “global SOS,” urging governments to increase climate action to “Save Our Seas.” Guterres called for international leaders to slash global greenhouse gas emissions, rapidly phase out fossil fuels and boost investments in climate adaptation to protect people from future and current risks, UN […]

    ‘Worst-Case’ Scenario for Antarctic Ice Sheets and Sea-Level Rise Less Likely Than Predicted, Study Finds

    ‘Worst-Case’ Scenario for Antarctic Ice Sheets and Sea-Level Rise Less Likely Than Predicted, Study Finds

    A new study led by Dartmouth College researchers has found that a “worst-case” projection for sea level rise from the melting of polar ice sheets is highly unlikely, though the accelerating ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland is still alarming. The study challenges a prediction in a United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]

    Biden-Harris Administration, NOAA Announce $575M to Make Coasts More Climate-Resilient

    Biden-Harris Administration, NOAA Announce $575M to Make Coasts More Climate-Resilient

    United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Commerce are recommending $575 million for the funding of 19 projects to increase climate resilience in the country’s Great Lakes and coastal states and territories. NOAA’s Climate Resilience Regional Challenge is part of the […]