Temperatures have topped 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels for the first time since November 2025. Heat records confirm that the recent spate of deadly wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, and floods are indeed the markings of a planet on fire. As the UN General Assembly approaches, world leaders must treat the climate crisis with urgency to prevent more catastrophic loss of lives and rising economic costs of extreme weather.
Pacific Climate Advocates condemn the Australian Government’s decision to expand the Saraji coal mine, extending operations by 30 years and emitting a further 120 million tonnes of climate pollution. The extension was announced as Australian Prime Minister Albanese met with Pacific leaders who maintain that climate change is the “single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of Pacific people and communities.”
Welcome to boiling world and climate extreme planet. The world is on track to cross the 1.5°C global warming threshold, likely within the next few years, according to a major new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today (2/9). Limiting Overshoot finds that even the most optimistic scenario now points to a peak temperature rise of 1.8°C.
A glacial collapse that resulted in a flash flood in the Nepal-Tibet border shows that climate delay is proving to be deadlier and more destructive than world leaders admit, climate groups said. Disasters like this are becoming more frequent and more deadly as the Himalayas warm and glaciers destabilize.
Climate campaigners warned that record high temperatures and a strong El Niño is resulting in severe drought in many countries, hitting crop yields and raising food prices. 350.org urged governments to move fast to protect farming communities and consumers, and mobilize the necessary funds through higher, permanent taxes on fossil fuel profits.
As a strong El Niño develops on top of already record global temperatures, leading climate scientists and policy experts warned today that media coverage attributing extreme weather primarily to El Niño is missing the real story, and that the mounting cost of climate disasters is falling hardest on the people least responsible for causing them.
