Global Warming

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…

October is a time for pumpkin spice lattes, scarvesand record-breaking heat. Yup, October 2019 was the hottest October ever documented, but cmon, does that surprise anyone anymore? The Copernicus Union Climate Change Service managed by the European Union ann…

Cars and motorcycles wade through a flood caused by rising sea level in Central Java, Indonesia, on Feb. 2, 2018.  Getty Images Even if countries around the world stick to the carbon emission pledges of the current Paris Agreement, sea levels will continue …

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…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The vast majority of national commitments in the 2015 Paris Agreement are inadequate to prevent the worst effects of global warming, scientists said on Tuesday, naming the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries as among those…

VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said on Tuesday that the oil producer group fully supports the Paris Agreement on climate change, a day after the Trump administration said it had filed paperwork to withdraw the United States from t…

The White House began its formal process to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on Monday. It comes as no surpriseseemingly everyone has been biting their nails, staring at their screen waiting on the announcement. Though Donald Trump said bac…

In April 2016, with his granddaughter sitting on his lap, Secretary of State John Kerry signed the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It was a year that would soon become the warmest on record.  Although every nation on Earth is a signatory of the h…

People who dismiss climate change often claim that the earth's warm-up is simply part of “natural climate variability.” A paper published in July in Nature puts that argument to rest. The authors show that warm and cold years were regularly interspersed durin…

Alaska, a rapidly changing realm, will never cease to amaze Rick Thoman, a veteran climate scientist at the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy even after a year of broken heat records and unprecedented losses of ice.  Now in the deep of fall, Al…