Read article: The state of the climate in 2019 and its impacts on us
Omar Baddour discusses the provisional statement of WMO State of the Climate report 2019, released this week
Read article: UN secretary-general calls for rapid and deep change at UN climate summit
António Guterres, Pedro Sánchez and Nancy Pelosi call for action on first day of COP 25
Read article: Sea ice snowscape is surprisingly complex
Analysis of snow thickness suggests that deposition and reshaping of snow dunes by the wind account for two distinct patterns of measurement noise
Read article: City heat hits the poor hardest
The urban heat island effect makes cities warmer than their surroundings, but low-income neighbourhoods suffer more than most
Read article: US motorists prepared to pay more for fuel to lower emissions
Survey finds respondents will pay average premium of around $150 per tonne of carbon saved
Read article: Flooding set to increase in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin
Heavy rainfall likely to rise even if climate change limited to 1.5 °C
Read article: Extreme heatwaves pose spreading threat
Rising temperatures mean that heatwaves will become hotter, more frequent, last longer and will cover much wider areas
Read article: Does saving water mean cutting rice yields?
New irrigation techniques could cut long-term soil fertility
Read article: Oceans could have reached carbon threshold
Man-made emissions may be enough to tip planet into sixth mass extinction
Read article: Water stress rises as more wells run dry
Soon, communities and even nations could be drawing water faster than the skies can replenish it. As the wells run dry, so will the rivers
