Global Warming

Lawyers with the environmental legal nonprofit ClientEarth filed a groundbreaking complaint against BP for greenwashing in their ads. Theyre also calling for a ban on all fossil fuel ads, unless they come with a tobacco-style health warning about the dangers …

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Norwegian research ship Lance is about two days' trek from the explorers Two explorers are short of food and battling strong winds after trekking hundreds of miles at the North Pole, but they hope to reach safety soon. …

It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here. Dr. James Hansen Sounds like a comment overheard in Madrid this week, where the U.N. is yet again huddling to discuss the climate crisis. No…

Global carbon emissions are expected to hit an all-time high in 2019, scientists say, smashing a previous record set in 2018. By the end of the year, emissions from industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels will pump an estimated 36.8 billion met…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Ms Thunberg has spent more than two weeks crossing the Atlantic in a catamaran Climate activist Greta Thunberg said that adults should stop making young people "angry" over global warming. Ms Thunberg was speaking after her…

As world leaders gather in Madrid to come up with solutions to the climate crisis, the people of East African nations such as South Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia are feeling the effects firsthand. Incessant rains throughout the region have spurred flash floods, a…

By Matthew Green MADRID (Reuters) - The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warned on Tuesday, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate …

Demonstrators in New York call for action on climate change. Sarah Tew/CNET Tech executives are once again reaffirming their commitment to the Paris climate accord, even as the Trump administration has begun the official process to withdraw. In an open lett…

The British Ecological Society has announced the winners of its annual photography competition, with first place going to an image of a Malagasy tree boa. Image copyrightRoberto Garcia Roa Winning photographer Roberto Garcia Roa said: "Unfortunately, many a…

A new wall is making headlines — and it is not a border wall. The unveiling of the largest living wall in Europe, the Citicape House by Sheppard Robson, in London aims to combat global warming and growing greenhouse gases and improve local air cleanliness qua…