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

The climate crisis hurts the people and countries that did the least to cause it

How the climate and ecological emergencies are creating a human rights crisis

Air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels leads to health issues and premature deaths, with communities of color being used as sacrifice zones

The climate and ecological emergency are putting human health and safety at risk

The climate emergency is a child’s rights crisis

Climate and ecological breakdown threatens the health and safety of women, increasing rates of violence and sexual abuse

Indigenous communities contribute very little to greenhouse gas emissions, and Indigenous knowledge is vital to the protection of biodiversity and the natural world

The climate crisis could displace up to 1.2 billion people by 2050

Poetry and two plays about climate change and ecological breakdown

The climate crisis is worsening inequities between the rich, the people and countries that created the crisis, and the poor

The climate and ecological crises could displace up to 700 million Africans by 2030

Decades of systemic racism and human rights violations have contributed to the deaths and disappearances of thousands of Indigenous women and girls, constituting a genocide

Economists report that the cost of climate inaction will be more than the cost of climate action.