#mudança climática

Official portrait of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, released by the Palácio do Planalto in 2023.

Lula calls for US$1.3 trillion a year at COP31 and says rich nations developed at the planet's expense

Türkiye's Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, Murat Kurum, walks with delegates in the COP30 Blue Zone in Belém in November 2025. He presides over COP31.

COP31 opens in Antalya with a fight over finance before the first session, and no US administration officials

A red-level heatwave alert in the Paris metro, at Châtelet station, on 13 July 2026.

Climate and health

Summer 2026 killed more than 50,000 people in European cities, and two-thirds of the deaths are blamed on global warming

Bleached corals on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in March 2016. The Australian system is among those the IUCN classifies as critically endangered.

IUCN lists 96% of shallow-water coral reefs as critically endangered, with a high risk of collapse by 2075

The ice tongue of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, in a radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite on 2 October 2025.

Study doubles the sea-level rise expected from Thwaites Glacier and sees a 60% chance it unpins from its bed by 2100