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Odessa, Texas is without water despite soaring temperatures. Almost all of Portugal is in severe drought after a hotter than average May.

Antarctic glaciers are melting at their fastest rate in 5,500 years, according to a recent study. A recent study in Nature Climate Change suggests there’s a 42% chance that earth will warm by 1.5 degrees C above pre-Industrial levels even if we cut emissions right now. Carbon dioxide levels are the highest they have in something like four million years. On the upside, Europe has reduced its greenhouse admissions by 34% since 1990, beating the target of 20%.

New Zealand and California have agreed to share best practices and ideas for fighting climate change, as well as putting more electric cars on the road.

Three elderly women have died in a brief heatwave in Chicago, prompting renewed alarm over the health impact of climate change among vulnerable populations.

Climate change is causing storms that were not expected until 2080, according to an Israeli study.

The earliest heat advisories ever have been issued in the US northeast, with temperatures reaching above 100º. Italy’s longest river is running dry, threatening food supplies in the region. Delhi has hit a record temperature of 120º, prompting the government to warn residents to stay indoors.

A UN report has warned that more than 75% of the world could be in drought by 2050. If the report weren’t warning enough, wildfires are already raging in the western United States. California officials are warning residents to drastically reduce their water usage, lest face shortages for indoor water use.

The federal government announced that it will delay releasing water from one of the Colorado River’s largest reservoirs as a result of the historic drought in the west.

India and Pakistan are currently suffering a devastating heat waves, causing water and electricity shortages.

Sea levels in New Zealand are rising twice as fast as previously thought, according to new data. Meanwhile, in this hemisphere, new government maps of the United States west reveal that nearly the entire United States west is already in draught, before summer has even started.

Last month, the Antarctic is currently experiencing temperatures 70 degrees above normal. And, this past year, the Western United States and Mexico experienced the worst drought in 1,200 years. Meanwhile, a report by the New Climate Institute accuses top companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google are not changing quickly enough to slow climate change, and what’s worse they’re exaggerating their progress.

All of the snow at the Beijing Olympics is human made, a bad sign for both the climate and future winter Olympics. The Great Salt Lake is disappearing, which could lead to a major ecological disaster. New research suggests that the extreme heat in the oceans passed the point of no return in 2014, meaning warmer oceans are now the new norm.

Last year, climate change-related disasters cost the world some $100 billion. Record temperatures topping 67º F hit Alaska this month, setting a record for December. The weather has led to torrential rain, and raises the possibility of major flooding as the climate continues to warm.

According to the annual Global Carbon Budget Report, the planet has eleven years to avoid dire climate scenarios.

The largest delegation at the COP26 climate conference is affiliated with the fossil fuel industry. Perhaps this is why Greta Thunberg has called the COP26 climate conference a failure. “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve a crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” she said. As if to make her point, Japan has refused to sign the statement on ending the use of coal-powered plants.

The CEO of Exxon has been accused of lying to Congress about his company’s knowledge of its contribution to climate change––and its attempts to cover that all up.

A major document leak has revealed that wealthy nations like Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Australia (among others) are pressuring the UN to slow their shift away from climate change. Wealthy nations are also questioning why they should pay poor countries to shift towards green technologies.

A metastudy of of nearly 90,000 climate studies reveal that 99.9% of studies agree that humans caused climate change, effectively quashing the argument that there’s any kind of debate.

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