Humans are destroying rainforests, one of Earth’s major carbon sinks and home to many species of plants and animals

The difference between weather and climate

Some areas hitting wet-bulb temperatures and becoming increasingly uninhabitable

Tornados are getting worse and more frequent but their connection with climate change is unclear.

Earth is on the brink of reaching irreversible tipping points that will spiral heating out of human control and into what scientists call an “uninhabitable hothouse Earth”

As the Earth's climate warms, heat waves are becoming more dangerous and frequent

Extreme heat, floods, and droughts from global heating are already causing crop failures and famine

Scientists report that “ocean heat bomb has ignited.” Global warming is heating oceans, killing marine life, and may cause oceans to tip from carbon sinks into carbon emitters if urgent action isn’t taken to stop and reverse heating.

Habitat destruction and climate change pushes animals into human spaces, increasing the odds of zoonotic diseases

As we start to phase out fossil fuels, the cooling effect from aerosols will disappear within a year, while heat trapping gases will linger in the atmosphere for hundreds of years