New York City’s Climate Clock ticks below six-year mark for first time, raising urgency on global climate action

Across the United States, more than 100 million people are dealing with an oppressive heat wave, while others are battling strong thunderstorms.

Climate experts have attributed such extreme weather patterns to global warming, and warn that heatwaves will become more frequent and more severe, with worse consequences on populations.

Such existential threats are driving activists in the climate movement.

“People are gathering, marking impact zones, whether that’s from droughts or bad harvests or toxic pollution from the fossil fuel industry or floods, (and) marching from places of that kind of devastation in their communities to the halls of power, and demanding that their leaders act in time to implement systemic solutions to observe a livable planet,” Mr Boyd told CNA.