We're edging closer to exceeding 1.5°C of warming globally, and scientists will soon gather to understand the implications of missing our climate change targets. The first-ever Overshoot Conference in Austria will discuss how we might recover our climate targets through mitigation or carbon removal| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are "extremely unlikely" to work, and are a risk to the environment, say NZ and international experts in a new paper. The researchers looked at ideas like injecting aerosol clouds into the atmo| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
Antarctic sea ice levels have been at record lows for the last three years, a global report shows. The World Meteorological Organisation's State of the Global Climate 2024 report also highlights three years of record glacier loss, record air and ocean temperatures, the highest atmospheric CO₂ level| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
