Global Warming

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Extreme floods in Venice, fires in Australia and even an outbreak of plague in China have been attributed to climate change this week, while researchers have warned that global warming could saddle future generations with life-long illne…

Chris McNeil has journeyed to Alaska's sprawling Taku Glacier at least once a year for the last decade. At 259 square miles, it's larger than Chicago. "You can see across this thing for days," said McNeil, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey. For de…

NASA scientists, who once engineered spaceships that allowed humans to explore the dusty moon, have also provided evidence, for decades, that humans are unequivocally warming Earth. This warming ushered in by the highest atmospheric concentrations of heat-tr…

Image copyrightGetty Images Cutting the speed of ships has huge benefits for humans, nature and the climate, according to a new report. A 20% reduction would cut greenhouse gases but also curb pollutants that damage human health such as black carbon and ni…

Collins Dictionary, publishing dictionaries now for two centuries, announced its 2019 "word of the year" on Thursday. It's a term whose usage increased by a whopping 100-fold between 2018 and 2019, according to Collins' lexicographers, and since 2013 has bee…

If your kid has a wide range of interestsand a short attention spantheyll probably be into Triviatopia, a series of educational animated videos on YouTube about everything from science, history and art to technology and the environment. Each video is just ov…

Joan Hodgins remembers the "wonderful day" in April 1973 as she hiked up hills and hopped over creeks with half a dozen kids participating in an outdoor program she led near Whitehorse. Along the way, the 22-year-old educator plopped what looked like tiny b…

Elon Musk has pledged to donate $1 million to a campaign that aims to plant 20 million trees around the world by January 1, 2020. He even changed his Twitter handle to @Treelon. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey followed suit with a $150,000 pledge of his own.  The c…

The industrial carbon tax, known as the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) system, is the centrepiece of Premier Jason Kenneys climate strategy and replaces a similar system introduced by his New Democratic predecessor. JASON FRANSON/The Ca…

Study Finds Global Warming Accelerating Formation Of Polar Fire Caps