Global Warming

The giant donut of ice encircling Antarctica is a volatile entity. This ring of sea ice around the continent which grows each winter and largely melts each summer had been gradually increasing in size for 36 years, since reliable satellite measurements came …

If you look outside of US, in the rest of the world, high speed rails is very practical and feasible approach to long distance travel across land. It is already fully electric and do not burn any fossil fuels, its carbon footprint will be reduce as power sour…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The national weather service has issued an unprecedented red alert warning for three areas of southern France France may hit its highest-ever recorded temperature on Friday in a heatwave that has swept across Europe this…

In a rapid-fire question-and-answer portion of the first Democratic presidential debate Wednesday evening, each candidate was asked about the greatest geopolitical threat to the U.S. Interested in Democratic Party? Add Democratic Party as an interest to sta…

In his online News story Update: In reversal, science publisher IEEE drops ban on using Huawei scientists as reviewers (3 June, https://scim.ag/HuaweiReversal), J. Mervis describes the U.S. decision (since revoked) to hinder scientific peer reviewers employed…

The heat has arrived. As predicted, a potent heat wave settled over Europe this week, bringing abnormally high June temperatures to vast swathes of France, Spain, Germany and beyond home to hundreds of millions. Already, the highest ever recorded June temper…

OSAKA (Reuters) - World leaders are descending on Osaka, west Japan, for a summit on Friday and Saturday of the Group of 20 (G20) big economies. Here are five issues likely to dominate the meeting, hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. TRUMP-XI TR…

Ten Democratic presidential contenders will take the debate stage in Miami on Wednesday night. Some of them may have noticed that the weather in town is unusually hot. Normally, temperatures in Miami around June's end max out at around 90 degrees Fahrenheit,…

WASHINGTON — Nearly 70 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, want the United States to take "aggressive" action to combat climate change — but only a third would support an extra tax of $100 a year to help, according to a Reuters/Ipsos po…

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors managing more than $34 trillion in assets, nearly half the world’s invested capital, are demanding urgent action from governments on climate change, piling pressure on leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies meeting this week.…