Global Warming

Students protesting for greater action on climate change in March.Credit: DAN PELED/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock For the fourth time in little more than a decade, an Australian election features a fierce battle over climate-change policy. Analysts say the result wil…

There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been for 800,000 years — since before our species evolved. On Saturday (May 11), the levels of the greenhouse gas reached 415 parts per million (ppm), as measured by the National Oceanic and Atmos…

Were officially living on a planet with an atmosphere no previous human being has ever experienced. Youll probably be able to say the same thing tomorrow. Carbon dioxide levels recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 415 parts per million on …

Luckily, Ikea’s innovation lab Space10 is publishing a cookbook called Future Food Today to help. Packed with about two dozen recipes that rely on what the lab calls “future foods”–like microalgae and mealworms–the cookbook is desig…

Comparison of global climatologies confirms warming of the global ocean

"Between global warming, Elon Musk, and a worldwide crackdown on carbon, the future looks treacherous for Big Oil," argues CNN Business writer Matt Egan, calling the rise of electric vehicles "an existential threat to the oil industry.""Passenger vehicles are…

A new scientific report finds that human behaviors are driving the extinction of non-human species at a rate so severe that the subsequent disappearance of life will soon be a threat to human health and prosperity. Habitat destruction on land, overfishing in …

Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario wants to change the way the world grows crops, and she's ready to take on any entrenched powers that would stand in the way. Marcario is one of Business Insider's " 100 People Transforming Business," and in an interview for the …

The party is over for Party City, as the company has announced it will close 45 stores. The retail chain has been grappling with a global shortage of helium, although it says the shortage is not related to the store closures. It typically closes around 10 to …

The party is over for Party City, as the company announced it was closing 45 stores. But don’t try to blame the ongoing retail apocalypse this time. The stores aren’t closing due to lack of customers but over a lack of helium.While you were focusing on global…