Climate Change

I'm standing on a 45-year-old dam high in the Peruvian Andes, gripped by a mix of awe and terror. The glacial waters of Lake Palcacocha lap at the 25-foot-tall structure. Billions of gallons of meltwater stretch a mile back to the foot of the ice-capped pea…

Climate change is taking a toll on the ocean, and people are racing to save the seas. But a new study shows exactly whos to blame for their crash. And no, its not consumers. Its major fossil fuel producers: BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell. The…

Shortly before Greta Thunberg was chosen as Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year, the 16-year-old delivered a searing speech at a U.N. climate summit in Madrid. In it, Thunberg admonished world leaders for failing to act with the urgency required to fix t…

OXFORD, England (Reuters) - On November 14, 1881, an American called George Melville limped across a frozen delta in Siberia and pulled a pole from the snow with his frost-bitten hands. Exhausted and half-starving, Melville was scouring the wasteland for fe…

Thousands rallied in Sydney on Wednesday evening to demand urgent climate action from Australia's government, as bushfire smoke chokes the city and causes a spike in health problems. A mass of people crowded Town Hall, with one police officer at the scene estimating the number of protesters may have exceeded…

The NSW emergency services minister has been criticised by a leading scientist after dismissing the climate change concerns of respected Australian fire chiefs as inappropriate and "quite unpalatable". A coalition of former emergency services bosses in November urged the federal government to declare a climate emergency as devastating bushfires raged…

In 1965, following a report from his Science Advisory Committee, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to pass a law curbing carbon dioxide emissions. Four years later, in a memo to John Ehrlichman, President Nixons domestic affairs chief, Daniel Patrick Mo…

Greta is getting impatient.  On Friday, a reported 500,000-person climate change action protest swelled in the streets of Madrid. The protesters many of them skipping school as part of the "School Strike for Climate" movement were there to pressure world lea…

For weeks now, Australia has been dealing with severe bushfires. Theyve engulfed the countrys largest city in smoke, threatening air quality throughout New South Wales and destroying key koala habitat. In New South Wales alone, more than 100 bush and grassfir…

The joint venture will break ground on a plant in the Lordstown, Ohio area next year to produce the battery cells and is expected to create more than 1,100 new jobs. The two companies will invest $2.3 billion and the plant will produce more than 30-gigawatt h…