Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns

• From the AP: UN Climate Report: Atlas of Human Suffering' Worse, Bigger. Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says. And after that watch out. Read here.

• From the NY Times: Countries aren’t doing nearly enough to protect against the disasters to come as the planet keeps heating up, a major new scientific report concludes. The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, according to a major new scientific report released on Monday. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts convened by the United Nations, is the most detailed look yet at the threats posed by global warming. Read the article (may be paywalled)

• From the Boston Globe: The effects of climate change are worse than we thought, an unflinching new UN report finds. “I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement. Read the article (may be paywalled).

• From the Washington Post: Humanity has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to avoid a hotter, deadly future, U.N. climate report says. Read the article (may be paywalled).