Global Warming

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…

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…