Global Warming

Another round of climate protests are planned this Friday across Canada and the world. Here’s what you need to know about the strikes. What are the strikes about? The strikes are in protest of climate change and the lack of action being done against it, and…

Warming transforms the oceans and poles

Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images The battle between convenience and conservation While climate activists try to save the planet, they’re also trying to figure out the cleanest, greenest way to navigate the globe — and it’s far more complic…

Give it up to President Donald Trump, who couldnt have the set the stage any better for Greta Thunberg to pull off the greatest publicity stunt. Trump, the worlds biggest climate change naysayer, dismissively walked past the Swedish teen Monday after her pas…

Greta Thunberg's calls for action at the UN Climate Summit produced few commitments to combat global warming. But she's not done yet. Greta Thunberg, the 16-years-old climate activist from Sweden, addresses world leaders at the start of the 2019 Climate Acti…

Sea levels are also rising increasingly quickly "due to increasing rates of ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets," the report states. The report also discusses a relatively new phenomenon in the oceans: marine heat waves. That's a big deal for…

To most people, the world’s oceans can seem dark and distant. Billions live in close proximity to them and rarely venture in; billions more live with the world’s bodies of water out of sight and out of mind. But as humans continue to pump global-warming caus…

On Sept. 20, millions of young people around the world took to streets demanding bold action on climate change. When world leaders gathered at the United Nations Climate Action Summit three days later, the activists’ demands were left unmet. The problem, by …

Scientists are urgently trying to understand how global warming is changing the Arctic. The international team of researchers aboard the Polarstern will be gathering crucial and rare firsthand data. Well just go where the ice goes, said Markus Rex, the lead r…

By Matthew Green NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report on Wednesday investigating what is likely to happen to oceans, glaciers and ice caps if the world fails to bring carbon emis…