Global Warming

Freshwater phytoplankton blooms affect public health and ecosystem services globally1,2, with harmful impacts resulting either from a blooms high intensity or the presence of toxin-producing phytoplankton species. Freshwater blooms result in economic losses o…

Despite all its evidently performative public-facing climate change initiatives, Google is forking over substantial contributions to denier organizations and events. A report from the Guardian published Friday revealed that the tech company is contributing t…

The planet's warming climate has led to countless changes that are affecting all of us. Droughts, hurricanes, rising sea levels and forest fires -- all are now regular events in a world that saw close to 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission…

As a result of industrialization, the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has increased continuously over the past 100 years, which is considered the main reason behind global warming. However, the observational global mean atmospheric temperature levele…

By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Countries around the world should urgently begin accelerating efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the best way to do that is through implementation of carbon taxes and global cooperation, the Int…

While the worlds nations have vowed, under the Paris climate agreement, to curb emissions in order to limit global warming to those lower levels, they are nowhere near on track to do so. Among other things, at the lower end of global warming, many state bird…

Trump administration officials tend to talk around climate change, but in official documents, they outline an unfolding crisis of extinctions, flooding and fire. Agencies under President Trump are cataloging climate impacts in the mandatory environmental rev…

Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters BP CEO Bob Dudley is set to step down from the role in 2020, after spending more than 40 years at the oil-giant. He will be replaced by 49-year-old Bernard Looney, the company said in a statement.Dudley, who…

Image copyrightZhanna IsmailovaImage caption Arshak Makichyan holds a sign reading "climate strike", but his solitary Fridays for Future protests generate little enthusiasm in Moscow For 30 Fridays on the trot, a young Russian violinist has stood in centra…

Indigenous peoples and people of colour are disproportionately affected by our global climate crisis. But in the mainstream green movement and in the media, they are often forgotten or excluded. This is Tipping Point, a new VICE series that covers environment…