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Climate change impacts

The harms to climate, health, and welfare caused by human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, including increases in extreme heat, drought, floods, and other impacts.

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Jan 26, 2026
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is the human responsible for climate change

Human activity is the dominant cause of contemporary global warming: multiple major scientific bodies and large-scale literature reviews conclude that greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuel...

Feb 2, 2026

What is the impact of changes in my behaviour for the good of the planet?

can add up to meaningful environmental benefits when they target high-impact domains (transport, housing, food) and are supported by social and policy shifts, but their efficacy is bounded by systemic...

Jan 21, 2026

Climate change is causing human emissions of heat-trapping gases warming the climate by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1850-1900.

Human emissions of heat‑trapping have driven near‑global warming of about 1.0–1.3°C (roughly 1.8–2.3°F) above the 1850–1900 baseline, with best estimates around 1.1°C (2.0°F) for recent decades, a con...

Jan 15, 2026

Professor Gianluca Alimonti

Professor Gianluca Alimonti is an Italian physicist and senior researcher tied to the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the University of Milan, with a research profile in high-energy/p...

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