Global Warming

(MADRID) — Officials from almost 200 countries scrambled Friday to reach an agreement at a U.N. climate meeting in Madrid amid growing concerns that key issues may be postponed for another year. With the prospect of overtime looming, negotiators were poring …

Abandoning meat isnt easy. Believe me: I ate a beefy-ass bolognese for lunch yesterday and later munched on some chicken wings. Unfortunately, the meat industry is a growing source of carbon pollution, and continuing to let meat consumption grow could eat up …

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Island nations and poor coastal countries facing the severest effects of climate change offer a “moral call to the rest of the world” to act now, former U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday. “For those of you who are... experi…

EverytimeGretaThunbergspeaks, I have to fight tears. The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist stood on the main stage at the international climate talks ongoing in Madrid Wednesday and didnt go on about personal stories or struggles. Instead, she stuck to the…

Around 400 million people would be exposed to coastal flooding every year by the end of the century if Greenland continues to lose ice at its current rate, scientists have warned. That is 40 million more than the numbers predicted by the Intergovernmental Pa…

Greenland's ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the irreversible impacts of the climate emergency much closer. Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times f…

Extreme events all over the world were marked by the influence of climate change in 2018: wildfires in California, heat waves in Europe and Asia, and record-low sea ice in the Arctic. That’s according to an annual special report released yesterday in the Bul…

By Valerie Volcovici and Jake Spring MADRID (Reuters) - A future U.S. government will have to rebuild relations with China to revive international efforts to combat climate change, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is running for president, said o…

* Climate measures slowed by absence of US leadership -Kerry * Former US top diplomat helped broker Paris agreement * Trump has started process of quitting climate accord By Valerie Volcovici MADRID, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The world's richest nations are fail…

Image copyrightIUCN Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish. That's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN. While nutrient run-off ha…