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Climate change now has a start date
Researchers have pinpointed the beginning of global warming to a couple of decades in mid-1800s, showing earth’s sensitivity to small atmospheric changes
Adaptation takes centre stage as IPCC prepares 1.5C study
New report by world’s foremost authority on global warming likely to major on how countries can adjust to rising temperatures and weather extremes
UN science panel debates 1.5C as climate records fall
Scientists to explore emission pathways that could lead to lower levels of global warming with IPCC study due in 2018
As IPCC meets to discuss avoiding 1.5C, it is already too late?
Warning that humans may already have emitted enough carbon dioxide to undermine the 1.5°C temperature rise threshold agreed by 195 nations last December
Why the 1.5C climate limit matters in the Maldives
Political focus on tackling climate change has dropped since Paris talks, but need for urgent action remains writes Thoriq Ibrahim
Global warming hit 1.46C in March as records fall
Planet set for fifth successive warming year with average 1.21C temperature rises above 1850-1900 levels, a big increase on the 1.06C warming in 2015
Rio Olympics: don’t break 1.5C record, say athletes
Campaign launches to promote clean energy and sustainable lifestyles, with stars backing #sport4climate
UN asked Australia to cover up Great Barrier Reef lobbying
Email exchanges between Australian government and Paris-based UNESCO indicate officials colluded in keeping lobbying over key climate report secret
Scientists: 1.5C Paris climate goal needs more research
Science underpinning the global treaty aiming to stop average temperatures rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels needs more research
Spiral-tastic: Climate change in three animations
These mesmerising climate visuals tell the story of how emissions have stoked global warming since 1850
WMO: 2016 on track to be hottest year on record
Average temperature in the first six months of 2016 was 1.3C says NASA as fears over climate change impacts continue to mount
Heat stress to wipe billions off GDP in India, China
Scientific reports warn that people are already dying and economies being hit by climate change − and that the dangers are growing
Climate-linked European heatwave killed over 500
Hundreds of west Europeans were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report
Scientists: Window for avoiding 1.5C global warming ‘closed’
World is almost certain to breach danger threshold for millions of vulnerable people, study finds
Activists row over bioenergy role in meeting 1.5C climate target
Spat on the sidelines of Bonn climate talks exposes tough choices on the pathway to stabilise global greenhouse gas emissions
Where are climate goals in EIA energy outlook? It’s complicated
US advisory body disregards Paris Agreement in energy projections, to the chagrin of climate campaigners
Ben & Jerry’s, Toyota join science-based targets club
155 major companies have committed to cut emissions in line with 2C global warming threshold
Vulnerable states stress 1.5C goal at UN climate ceremony
Climate Vulnerable Forum calls on all countries to increase their carbon-cutting contributions by 2020, as leaders meet in New York
Five ways 2C global warming is worse than 1.5C
Half a degree makes a significant difference to sea levels, crop yields and coral reefs, find researchers
Global temperatures hit record 11 month hot streak
Average temperatures over the land and oceans in March were nothing short of remarkable, 1.22C above the historic average