Global Warming

The president of the U.N. climate talks said on Tuesday there was still a mountain to climb towards a goal of capping the global temperature rise at 1.5 Celsius, as a research group said existing pledges would allow the Earth to warm far beyond that. Britain’s Alok Sharma told reporters…

Nothing happens for decades, then decades happen in weeks, to quote Ilyich Lenin (or was it Ferris Bueller?). Or life comes at you fast, same-same. At a global level, we seem to be heading full-tilt towards a capitalism of global renewables, funded by joint state-private enterprises and initiatives, fuelled by…

There were four big announcements during the first week of COP26, the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow: on coal, finance, methane and deforestation. Of those four, the global methane pledge could have the most immediate impact on Earth's climate – provided countries follow through on their pledges and satellite monitoring…

The UN has said that the pledges countries are making at COP26 will do little to slow down global warming.The COP26 Summit is currently underway in Glasgow. Nations have presented commitments to lower emissions.A flurry of emissions pledges around the COP26 climate summit will likely do little to slow global…

A billion people will endure extreme heat stress if global temperatures were to increase by 2°C (3.6°F), research announced Tuesday by the U.K.'s Met Office at the COP26 climate summit warns. Why it matters: Current targets being discussed at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, would see global average temperatures overshoot the…

Here’s what to know Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are haggling over an agreement that could shape how nations report progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, how global carbon markets function, and how the rich countries of the world deliver on promises to help more vulnerable nations.Much of the action…

Würzburg, Germany - At the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, renowned German artist Robert Kessler presents his project "Climate Meter". It is a 70-metre-high kinetic sculpture that visualises climate change very simply. Current international research data controls its position and shows the acceleration of global warming. With the "Climate…

AsiaOne has launched EarthOne, a new section dedicated to environmental issues — because we love the planet and we believe science. Find articles like this there. JAKARTA - Hundreds of activists gathered in the streets of Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Friday (Nov 5), questioning the government's commitment to tackle global warming after…

The president’s remarks at the U.N. global-warming conference were mostly hot air. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne way to feel good about your performance at something is to find someone worse at it. So, someone failing to make headway at AA might rationalize it by saying, “Well, I may drink…

A study released on Friday by an Australian university has found that only two per cent of the Great Barrier Reef has escaped bleaching since 1998, then the world’s hottest year on record. If global warming is kept to 1.5 degrees, the maximum rise in average global temperature that was…