The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report today on the impacts of global warming of 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels.
The report outlines the considerable challenges of meeting the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5℃, the global effort needed to achieve the target, and the consequences of not.
The highlights of the report are presented below:



Lake beds are rich environmental records — studying them reveals much about a place’s history
An unexpected anomaly was found in the Pacific Ocean – and it could be a global time marker
The UK is surprisingly short of water – but more reservoirs aren’t the answer
Goldman Sachs Raises Oil Price Forecasts Amid Strait of Hormuz Disruptions
How ongoing deforestation is rooted in colonialism and its management practices
As the Black Summer megafires neared, people rallied to save wildlife and domestic animals. But it came at a real cost
How to create a thriving forest, not box-checking ‘tree cover’
Thousands of satellites are due to burn up in the atmosphere every year – damaging the ozone layer and changing the climate
How America courted increasingly destructive wildfires − and what that means for protecting homes today 



