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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Jun-2026 14:16 ET (18-Jun-2026 18:16 GMT/UTC)

The Earth is accumulating heat at an accelerating rate. Global warming reached 1.37°C in 2025

University of Leeds
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Strong and consistent evidence shows that the entire climate system is continuing to heat, driving rapid global warming. Human activities pushed global warming to 1.37°C in 2025, and its level is projected to surpass 1.5°C in about four years. Crucially, the rate at which heat is accumulating in the Earth system suggests high levels of future warming. These are some of the key findings from the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change (IGCC) report, published today in Earth System Science Data.

An international team of more than 70 scientists, including IPCC Lead Authors, Contributing Authors, and Chapter Scientists, from 56 institutions across 17 countries contributed to this year’s IGCC study.

Journal: Earth System Science Data

World’s leading soil science congress opens in Nanjing for the first time in China

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Meeting Announcement

The 23rd World Congress of Soil Science, often regarded as the “Olympics” of the soil science community, opened in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Held from June 8 to 12 under the theme “Soil and the Shared Future of Humankind,” the congress marks the first time in its nearly 100-year history that this premier global academic event in soil science has been hosted in China.

As California warms, cases of dengue fever are expected to grow

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Breakbone fever. The nickname alone attests to the pain that dengue fever can cause. About half the people who get the virus are asymptomatic. But for the rest, an infection can be excruciating, even life-threatening, and there is no treatment.

Journal: The Lancet Regional Health - Americas

Sea-level rise has increased frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, study finds

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Human-caused sea-level rise has dramatically increased the frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, making events once expected every 100 years occur about 12 times more often on average, according to a Tulane-led study published in Nature Climate Change. Using long-term tide gauge records and climate model simulations, researchers found that climate change has made these flooding events roughly four times more likely since 1900.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

What was previously a once-in-a-century storm surge now occurs every eight years

MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Storm surges and extreme water levels along coastlines occur significantly more frequently today than at the beginning of the 20th century. A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that what was statistically expected to occur only once every 100 years around 1900 now occurs, in global average, about every eight years. This corresponds to an increase by a factor of about twelve. The team of authors includes Prof. Ben Marzeion from the Institute of Geography and MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Global rice production nearly doubled despite climate change, driven largely by human management

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Global rice production nearly doubled between the 1960s and the 2010s, despite the negative impacts of climate change, according to a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The study found that management decisions — including expanded irrigation and increased nutrient inputs — played a central role in sustaining rice production and offsetting climate-related losses. The results of the study suggest that future food security will depend not only on environmental conditions, but also on how rice production systems are managed and adapted to changing conditions.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Hurricane rainfall and landslide risk on the rise in Southern California

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change could make historically rare tropical cyclones more common in Southern California, significantly expanding landslide risk across the region by 2050.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

'Cool Routes' navigator cuts heat exposure on walking trips

Arizona State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An online navigation tool developed at Arizona State University chooses walking paths based on forecasts of mean radiant temperature, a measure of the total heat load experienced in a given location, including reflected heat and sun exposure. The current version covers ASU's Tempe campus, but it is an open-source framework that can be put to work in other cities to support walking, biking, and public transit use.

Journal: Building and Environment

How ice-age sea-level falls may have turned seafloor volcanoes into ocean fertilizer

Boston College
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Boston College-led study suggests that enhanced mid-ocean-ridge volcanism may have released hydrothermal iron that fertilized plankton in the eastern equatorial Pacific during ice-age transitions. The work reveals a hidden connection among sea level, deep-sea volcanism, ocean productivity, carbon storage, and climate.

Journal: Nature Geoscience

When global warming becomes malnutrition: New study links climate change, childhood stunting and local inequality

University of Notre Dame
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Millions of children under age five worldwide suffer from childhood stunting. A critical marker of chronic undernutrition, stunting represents a lifelong constraint on human potential, carrying a heightened risk of mortality, chronic disease, impaired cognitive development and reduced economic opportunity. A new study from the University of Notre Dame reveals that human-caused climate change is actively worsening this public health crisis, acting alongside structural socioeconomic disparities that already challenge the next generation’s ability to thrive.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative, University of Notre Dame, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Center for Global Health Equity, University of Michigan

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