Global Warming

As a throng of climate strikers crowded New York City's Battery Park on Friday, Greta Thunberg lamented the empty promises of politicians who are ensuring a world in which the youth suffer due to their inaction.  "No matter where you are, that burden, they l…

Worsening droughts and biblical deluges are reducing food production and displacing millions of people. Record-high temperatures threaten to render areas of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, North Africa and South Asia uninhabitable. Growing migrations of…

A leading group of international climate scientists is warning that “large-scale strategies” are needed immediately to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert “catastrophic circumstances” that threaten every part of the world. In a paper published yesterda…

SYDNEY, Australia - Children across Asia and the Pacific kicked off what are set to be the largest global climate protests in history Friday, demanding adults act now to stop environmental disaster. From Sydney to Seoul, Manila to Mumbai, children heeded the…

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If youre trying to live in a way that helps mitigate the effects of climate change, you might resolve to fly less often or eat less meat. But what about switching banks? As author and environmentalist Bill McKibben explains in The New Yorker, financial inst…

As part of the 2019 Social Good Summit on Sept. 22, Mashable is tackling the climate change problem head on, highlighting the progress the world needs, and celebrating the experts making change happen. It's easy to feel like we won't win the fight against cl…

Glaciers continue to melt. Sea levels are on the rise. And now scientists believe the changing climate may put our brains at risk. A new analysis predicts that by 2100, increasing water temperatures brought on by a warming planet could result in 96 percent of…

This is a sad excuse for real discussion on climate change and international conflict, two very separate issues. Is global warming to blame for the Syrian war? Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke and Bernie Sanders seem to think …

One problem with Californias aggressiveness is that it created a two-tier market for automakers one set of cars for California and states that had joined in, another for the rest of the country. To address that, in 2009 President Obama forged a major agreemen…