Climate Change

16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg watched as Donald Trump walked past at the UN Climate Change Summit on Monday. She did not look pleased. Trump was initially expected not to attend the summit and was meant to be at a session on religious persecuti…

With the second mourning ceremony for a melted glacier this year, perhaps 2019 will go down as the year of funerals for glaciers murdered by climate change. On Sunday, hundreds held a funeral for the Pizol glacier in Switzerlands Glarus Alps. This is the fir…

Bots are notorious for scraping websites and abusing developer access to download gobs of user data. All too often bots try to game the system by scraping concert or airline ticket prices to buy in bulk at their lowest price and sell them off for higher. Wors…

"Make a plan for what you'll do . Give it words, numbers, days of the week. Allow your friends and families to witness it," novelist Jonathan Safran Foer advised the audience at Mashable's 10th annual Social Good Summit on Sept. 22.  Th…

As part of the 2019 Social Good Summit on Sept. 22, Mashable is tackling the climate change problem head on, highlighting the progress the world needs, and celebrating the experts making change happen. Climate change can often feel like a huge problem with f…

(Bloomberg) — The manicured estate of the Versailles Palace was designed for an absolute monarch and withstood the French revolution. But now climate change is threatening its survival. Hornbeam trees overlooking the estate’s Grand Canal died this summer, an…

Ford Motors (F) former CEO, Mark Fields, finds Amazons (AMZN) order for EVs (electric vehicles) a bit of a risk. In a CNBC interview, he said Amazon has ordered around 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Michigan-based startup Rivian. The vans could start d…

Image copyrightGetty Images Some of the world's largest firms including Amazon and Google have committed to big-spending green energy plans as calls for climate action increase. Amazon has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040 and Google said it would make …

The day before employees plan to walk out over climate change, Amazon announced a new "Climate Pledge" which includes buying 100,000 electric vans from Rivian.  Not only could the move help gloss over the company's poor climate change record, it could be ver…

Hundreds of young people from around the world have congregated in New York. Its nearly Climate Week, a huge strike is happening on Friday, and the United Nations has awarded some 100 young climate activists from different corners of the globe Green Tickets t…