Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

Scientists warn that some of the region’s biggest glaciers, such as Thwaites and Pine Island, are approaching or may even have passed a tipping pointthat could push up global sea levels by four metres. Antarctic ice melt has also been found to slow global ocean circulation. 

Cordero said a single winter of heatwaves, no matter how amazing, would not by itself make a huge difference to sea levels, but it signified more alarming long-term trends. “This heatwave happened because of extremely strong westerlies,” he said. “This has been happening with increasing frequency since the 1980s, and that is known to be related to climate change.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/10/record-winter-temperatures-in-antarctic-raise-fears-over-speed-of-climate-breakdown

 

 

‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/un-world-ocean-assessment-severe-stress-sea-level-rise-doubles-pollution-fishing-climate

 

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

 

Dozens of North Carolina houses have been lost to the sea. Some surviving homes are now being moved on wheels

Pace of sea-level rise has turned Outer Banks coastal area into a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for other east coast communities…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/29/north-carolina-outer-banks-homes

 

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

The Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought

 

Financial markets are built on expectations.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2B9V7zvhWYo

 

Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds

Exclusive: Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supply…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/half-world-100-largest-cities-in-high-water-stress-areas-analysis-finds

 

The people fleeing climate breakdown

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind. Introduction by Dina Nayeri…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/people-fleeing-climate-breakdown-in-pictures

Thousands of toxic sites across US face risk of coastal flooding

Study finds rising seas could flood facilities handling waste, sewage, and oil and gas – and coastal states most at risk

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/20/toxic-sites-us-coastal-flooding

 

‘Entire neighborhoods will have to move’: growth collides with rising seas in Charleston

'Entire neighborhoods will have to move': growth collides with rising seas in Charleston…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/charleston-rising-seas

 

Trees, homes, roads: how the sea is swallowing coastal villages in the Philippines

The country's coastal communities have long lived with flooding but as climate change accelerates rising sea levels and reclamation projects reshape Manila Bay, residents now see their homes under water more often…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2025/aug/18/flooding-climate-sea-coast-philippines-hagonoy-manila-bay-tibaguin-pugad-in-pictures

 

Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn | Climate crisis | The Guardian

The world is on track for 2.5C-2.9C of global heating, which would almost certainly be beyond tipping points for the collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets. The melting of those ice sheets would lead to a "really dire" 12 metres of sea level rise. 

Today, about 230 million people live 1 metre above current sea level, and 1 billion live 10 metres above sea level…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration 

 

Why sea level rise is skyrocketing across the U.S. South - Washington Post

This trend, driven by warming water, changing currents and melting ice, stretches deep into the ocean...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/us-south-sea-level-rise-climate-change/

What Will Our World Look Like at 4 Degrees?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFqR7gj32kc

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/rising-sea-levels-flooding

Ron DeSantis declares emergency over floods after cutting stormwater funds - Raw Story

The extreme weather prompted state Sen. Jason Pizzo (D-37) to criticize DeSantis' budget cut. 

"As I'm sitting here stuck on a Brightline train because of flooding in my district, all those stormwater projects he cut look pretty stupid right now," Pizzo told the AP...

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-flooding/

See how rising seas worsen high-tide floods in this N.C. beach town - Washington Post

The Post installed cameras along the main road of one N.C. town to document the many ways rising seas exacerbate high-tide flooding

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/coastal-flooding-carolina-beach-videos/

Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for an entire year - The Washington Post

"The difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees could be the difference between extinction and survival for some small island states and coastal communities," Guterres said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/06/05/global-temperatures-1-5-celsius-record-year/

Rising waters plague septic tanks, threatening pollution and health risks - Washington Post

"A large percentage of the developed land is actually comprised of septic drain fields," one filing argues, saying that such a situation risks "significant, irreparable harms" to public health and that of nearby marshes, beaches and fisheries. That includes the possibility of diseases such as hepatitis A and salmonellosis, which can be transmitted through fecal matter, and degradation of water quality, the filing said… 

"Sea level rise is happening. It will keep happening," said Leslie Lenhardt, a senior managing attorney for the South Carolina Environmental Law Project, which is working on the case. "It's steady, and it's coming for these developments."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/septic-tanks-rising-waters-environment-health/

Southern U.S. has faced twice the global sea level rise rate since 2010 - Washington Post

One of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth is besieging the South, choking septic systems, swallowing roads and drowning wetlands...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities/