Global Warming

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…

When the Australian Federal Environment Minister, Sussan Ley, went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in August, she told waiting reporters on the shore that shed seen amazing wildlife, fish, turtles, clamsa reef teeming with life. Such an upbeat assessmen…

Corals create potions that fight bacterial attackers, but warming appears to tip the scales against the potions as they battle a bacterium common in coral bleaching, according to a new study. Reef conservation may offer hope: A particular potion, gathered fro…

Summer's passed, but temperatures in the nation's capital are expected to reach between 20 and 25 degrees above normal on Wednesday, meaning highs of around 96 degrees Fahrenheit. And the heat trend is widespread. Well over 100 daily high temperature records…

Time is running out.  That was one of the messages Greta Thunberg delivered to a crowd of thousands gathered to demand action on climate change in Montreal.  “For those who, in many ways, have caused this crisis, the science is too uncomfortable to address.…