Global Warming

HALIFAX, N.S. — Three powerful storms in southern U.S. waters should not cause our region any trouble, according to SaltWire Network chief meteorologist Cindy Day. The three named storms are Imelda, Humberto and now Jerry, which was just upgraded to a tropic…

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, centre, applauds remarks by Sen. Ed Markey at a news conference at the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg on Tues…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who has shot to global fame for inspiring worldwide student strikes to promote action against climate change, took her mission to President Donald Trump’s doorstep on Friday with a protest outside the Wh…

The United Nations released a new science-based report Wednesday that shows the ways climate change can reverse the progress the world has made to end inequality through the U.N.s sustainable development goals. The international institution offers plenty of s…

Arctic sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate, a situation with many potential consequences including an acceleration of warming due to a decrease in albedo. Pedersen and Christensen used a suite of climate models to study how sea ice loss in various reg…

Different terms are used for a storm depending on where it forms. In the Atlantic, tropical cyclones are called hurricanes, which are most likely to occur after surface temperatures peak and large amounts of moisture are already in the atmosphere. That season…

A new climate report, Volume II of the National Climate Assessment, says that the effects of global warming are intensifying and getting costlier.

He also criticized the Mexico City agreement, a federal policy that bars foreign aid to any organization that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning. Because many groups that provide birth control and other services also perform…

He also criticized the Mexico City agreement, a federal policy that bars foreign aid to any organization that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning. Because many groups that provide birth control and other services also perform…

Flying low along a mountain ridge in central Argentina, Clayton Eveland slaloms right and left, steering the plane through one cloud after another, each one turning the cockpit windshield briefly white. Reaching the end of the range, he wheels around and take…