Glaciers

The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the global average, so it’s essential for scientists to study this climate now so they can better understand our warming world. Photographer Esther Horvath braved bone-chilling temperatures to capture these beautiful scenes of researchers at work.

Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth and every facet of the weather. Here's an explainer to the new report and what it means for our future.