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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Guardian staff

Carbon bombs and Gulf Stream collapse: the most urgent climate stories of our time

Graphic showing a polar ice cap melting through an hourglass onto a city beneath.

This year will be remembered as a watershed year for the escalating climate crisis. Dozens of countries have been hit by extreme weather so far in 2022. Millions have been driven from their homes by flood, fire or drought, while food and energy shortages are becoming acute in many regions.

Increasingly, extreme weather events are being caused by climate breakdown. The Guardian’s global team of environment reporters have covered the events – and their impact – around the world, around the clock. In the past year, we published almost 4,000 articles on the climate crisis, read by more than 65 million people, not to mention podcasts, live events and masterclasses.

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