Climate Change

Next Tuesday night President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will travel to Cleveland, Ohio, to square off in the first of three presidential debates. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace will moderate, and he’s already chosen his six topics for discussion. They are: the records of the two candidates,…

President Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that China would scale up its voluntary emissions targets under the Paris climate agreement. Photo: ReutersPresident announces new emissions goals in video address to UN General Assembly, just after Donald Trump slams Beijing for ‘rampant pollution’ Observer calls it a well-calculated move…

Posted September 23, 2020 at 11:29amIn Democratic politics, infrastructure and fighting climate change have become increasingly synonymous: You can’t have one without the other.Take the $494 billion surface transportation bill that House Democrats passed July 1. Republicans criticized it as an outgrowth of the Green New Deal. Democrats embraced it…

Elder Mrs. Jane Dragon (Setsune) at her cabin on the Taltson River. Photo: The Gordon Foundation Through a partnership with the Gordon Foundation, The Arctic Institute is publishing a series of papers on Canadian Arctic policy critiques and solutions written by Jane Glassco Northern Fellows. The Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship…

The prime minister's words promoting fossil fuels are loaded with meaning — they just don't mean what they say. Prime Minister Scott Morrison. (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas) Scott Morrison is very much at home spinning the story for the fossil-fuel industry, with phrases like "gas-led recovery" and "transition fuel" leading his…

This file photo taken on May 25, 2020, and provided on July 3, courtesy of the charity National Park Rescue, shows the carcass of one of the many elephants that have died mysteriously in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. -/AFP/Getty Images Investigators say the mysterious deaths of 330 elephants in…

Skip to main content HomeCoronavirus Updates2020 Election ResultsElectionsNationWorldPoliticsFactcheckEducationInvestigationsHealthWeatherRace in AmericaImpeachmentJust the FAQsTracking 2020Register to VoteVoter GuideNaturalist David Attenborough hopes a new documentary about his life and career - "David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet" - alerts people to the need to act over climate change. (Sept. 21)APRead More

News Sean Douglas 3 Days AgoFormer Jamaica prime minister P.J Patterson - FORMER Jamaican prime minister PJ Patterson said the two crises of covid19 and climate change now present an opportunity to Caribbean leaders to work together to advance their countries relative to external governance systems. He spoke at a…

America’s worsening climate change problem is as polarized as its politics. Some parts of the country have been burning this month while others were underwater in extreme weather disasters. The already parched West is getting drier and suffering deadly wildfires because of it, while the much wetter East keeps getting…

The Trump administration's scuttling or weakening of key Obama-era climate policies could together add 1.8 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent to the atmosphere by 2035, a Rhodium Group analysis concludes. Why it matters: The 1.8 gigatons is "more than the combined energy emissions of Germany, Britain and Canada in one…