Global Warming

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…

Madrid (AFP) - Confronted with a climate crisis threatening civilisation itself, humanity must choose between hope and surrender, UN chief Antonio Guterres told the opening plenary of the UN COP25 climate conference Tuesday. "One is the path of surrender, wh…

In May, The Guardian announced it would stop using the terms climate change and global warming in favor of the terms climate crisis and global heating. From their editor in chief Katharine Viner: The phrase climate change, for example, sounds rather passive a…

SITIO PARIAHAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Danica Martinez, 16, grew up in a house that grows taller every few years. Her father raises the stilts of their bamboo hut so water from the sea doesn’t reach the floor. They live in Sitio Pariahan, a coastal village…

Abstract Bastin et al. (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) claim that 205 gigatonnes of carbon can be globally sequestered by restoring 0.9 billion hectares of forest and woodland canopy cover. Reinterpreting the data from Bastin et al., we show that the global la…

Smoke, from intense fires, rises over the Amazon rainforest in August. Joao Laet/Getty A handful of climate scientists have warned Earth may have already crossed critical climate "tipping points," potentially resulting in irreversible changes to the environ…

Countries must make steeper cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions, making up for lost time, or risk missing their pledges to limit global warming, top United Nations officials said Tuesday. A report by the U.N. Environment Program, released just ahead of ne…