The Earth is now halfway to the UN’s maximum global warming ceiling: all but one of the main trackers of global surface temperature show an increase of 1°C or more.
Glaciers are retreating worldwide at a historically unprecedented rate. The World Glacier Monitoring Service reports annual ice loss at two to three times the 20th-century average.
The wildfire season lengthened between 1979 and 2013 by an average of about 19% over more than a quarter of the Earth’s vegetated surface.
