In 2020, the Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ published Breaking the Plastic Wave, a pioneering report that detailed how global plastic pollution was projected to nearly triple by 2040 unless bold action was taken to significantly curb pollution.

A decade after the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, new analysis from the UK’s Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) reveals a striking shift: Economic expansion no longer guarantees carbon emissions growth, thanks to countries’ carbon emission mitigation efforts.

Glaciers—icons of the Earth’s climate crisis—are not just shrinking in volume; scientists have now forecast when the rate of glacier disappearances will reach its zenith in this century. In a groundbreaking Nature study, glaciologists have shifted focus from traditional mass-loss metrics to the number of individual glaciers vanishing each year under different climate warming scenarios.