Global Warming

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…

Christiana Figueres was the United Nations climate chief at the historic conference in Paris in 2015, where nations first agreed to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. She is the founding partner of Global Optimism. Read More

MUMBAI, India —  After the cops showed up in an urban forest and detained Manisha Dhinde, one of them asked her: “What is this fashion of protesting for the environment?” “It isn’t fashion,” Dhinde snapped back on that day two years ago. “It is my duty to save trees.” She was…

Warming stripes of aviation, showing the percentage contribution to global warming from 1980 to 2021. Credit: Developed as part of ongoing collaboration with the European Aviation Safety Agency’s environmental work (e.g. ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/default/files/2019-aviation-environmental-report.pdf) Aviation is responsible for more global warming than implied by its carbon footprint alone. According to new research…

One analysis says that new pledges made at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, UK, have put the world on track for a 1.9°C of warming, but experts caution it takes a very optimistic view Environment | Analysis 3 November 2021 By Adam Vaughan Delegates gather at the COP26 climate…