A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at growing risk. But, what does that actually mean?
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But new research offers some hope if we are able to keep climate change under control.
The findings underscore the urgency of limiting global warming to below 1.5°C, to avert the most catastrophic climate harms.
Melting lakes on ice shelves can widen cracks within them - new research shows how these lakes change across the world’s largest sheet.
For the first time since satellites started studying the continent, East Antarctica has lost an entire ice shelf.
Over the past 30 years, the South Pole has been one of the fastest changing places on Earth, warming more than three times quicker than the rest of the world.
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