If This Terrifying Report Doesn't Wake You Up to the Realities of What We're Doing to This Planet, What Will?

Eight reasons you should be worried about the UN's latest climate report.

—By Tim McDonnell, Jeremy Schulman, and James West | Sun Mar. 30, 2014 8:36 PM PDT

The impacts of climate change are likely to be "severe, pervasive, and irreversible," the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Sunday night in Yokohama, Japan, as the world's leading climate experts released a new survey of how our planet is likely to change in the near future, and what we can do about it.