Climate Changed
UN Report Warns Climate Change Is Accelerating Ice Melt
“An existential crisis” as seas rise faster than predicted. Changes to civilization, one author says, are “permanent.”
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Days after millions of climate protesters called for international action and global leaders convened at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, the world’s top climate-science body warned that collaboration on a global scale is required to cope with an onslaught of accelerating changes.
Chief among them is rapidly rising seas that will permanently alter how humans live—and where.