Global Warming

PARIS: The world's wealthiest 10 per cent of individuals are responsible for two thirds of global warming since 1990, researchers said on Wednesday (May 7). How the rich consume and invest has substantially increased the risk of deadly heatwaves and drought, they reported in the first study to quantify the impact…

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The 2025 Met Gala served up an unexpected but heartwarming moment as global music stars Rihanna and Ciara publicly ended their long-standing feud. The glamorous event, held on May 5, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, saw the two singers share smiles, warm gestures, and friendly…

Coral restoration is vastly outpaced by degradation, while intensifying climate stress, prohibitive costs, poor site selection and lack of coordination make large-scale restoration currently unviable, a new study has found. The scale-cost mismatch is staggering: Restoring just 1.4% of degraded coral could cost up to US$16.7 trillion, while current global…

In July 2024, a heat wave swept through the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. The surrounding metropolitan area, home to more than 7.5 million people, is known for its mild weather. Only about half of the area’s homes have air-conditioning, according to 2023 census data...Read More

84 Percent of Corals Impacted in Mass Bleaching Event The world is experiencing the most intense global coral bleaching event on record, with 84 percent of reefs experiencing heat stress from warming oceans By Andrea Thompson edited by Dean Visser Fish swim around a bleached coral. d3_plus D.Naruse @ Japan/Getty…

Nele Marien is Forests & Biodiversity International Programme Coordinator for Friends of the Earth International.  As we celebrate Earth Day – and with the UN COP30 climate summit in sight – we are simultaneously witnessing the widespread and devastating effects of the climate and biodiversity crises. A new report, Climate…

By Sadiq Khan and Denis Hayes Mayor of London and First Earth Day Organizer ????️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Creating a safe and livable future for humanity would appear to be an obvious goal for all. Yet, in 2025, the climate movement has never faced a more hostile…

When smoke from Canadian wildfires turned New York City skies apocalyptically orange in June 2023, it delivered catastrophic air quality and an unexpected side effect: cooling the New York City region by about 3 degrees Celsius. This temperature drop, called "global dimming," which is the opposite of "global warming," trapped…

The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice this winter was the lowest on record Tony Skerl/Shutterstock Human-caused climate change has ravaged sea ice at both ends of Earth in what may be a disturbing new normal. February this year saw global sea ice extent hit a record low as sluggish…