Global Warming

Climate change is bad for the planet, but groundbreaking for archeology

Russia is vying for control of Arctic seaways and has built some 40 icebreakers. China, which is not a polar country, has launched aggressive Arctic diplomacy. | Vladimir Isachenkov/AP Photo Hurricanes, floods, and wildfires aside, climate change is deliveri…

The journey was often rough, but Greta Thunberg has sailed into New York City waters. The 16-year-old Swedish teenager who over the last year has emerged as one of the warming planet's foremost climate activists arrived in the Big Apple on Wednesday afternoo…

Emergency medicine for our climate fever | Kelly Wanser

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called for a global commitment to put out the fires in the Amazon, saying the area was essential for the health of the planet. "We are all worried about the vast fires that have developed in the Amazon. Let u…

The first paper addressed the three sectors of the economy power generation, transportation and buildings that together are responsible for nearly 70 percent of carbon emissions in the United States, and what must be done to clean them up. In the case of tran…

During the age of dinosaurs, a family of plants known as cycads flourished all around the planet. These fern-like species left fossils everywhere from Alaska to Antarctica, but their descendents have been restricted to tropical and subtropical habitats as Ear…

Bernie Sanders' climate plan, one of the biggest of the already big climate plans, dropped Thursday. The strategy (which is the largest by strictly financial measures) outlines ambitious and politically radical change, including a rapid transition from fossi…

Cycads are palm-tree like plants that dominated the Earths landscape some 280 million years ago when the continents were smashed up into Pangea. Back then, the planet was going through global warming due to increased carbon dioxide levels from natural process…

When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we'll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts. We'll do all this until the websites go dark and the netwo…