Global Warming

ROME—The world’s leading economies made no major progress on Sunday over how to cut greenhouse gas emissions, showing how difficult it will be to achieve a breakthrough at United Nations climate talks in Glasgow over the next two weeks. During a two-day summit in Rome, leaders of the Group of…

Leaders of the world's biggest economies worked Sunday to finalize agreement on scaling up climate financing and a deadline for reaching carbon neutrality on the final day of a weekend summit that is setting the tone for the even bigger U.N. climate conference opening in Glasgow, Scotland. Negotiators for the…

(From L) US President Joe Biden, DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, French President Emmanuel Macron, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Italy’s Prime Minister, Mario Draghi and other world leaders. (Photo by Erin SCHAFF / POOL / AFP)G20 leaders meeting in Rome…

Climate action can be a vehicle to deliver dignity, opportunity and equality for all. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed invites us to reimagine what the journey to net-zero could look like if we invest in people's climate efforts while prioritizing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals -- a blueprint of…

BERLIN — The United Nations is summoning an unusual “witness” to testify to the dangers of burning fossil fuels that stoke global warming: a dinosaur. In a video released on social media ahead of this year’s U.N. climate change summit, a computer-generated dinosaur bursts into the U.N.’s famous General Assembly…

From Death Valley to the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent to sub-Saharan Africa, global warming has already made daily life unbearable for millions of people. And if nothing is done to slow climate change, the record temperatures and deadly heatwaves it brings will only get worse, experts warn. "Climate (change)…

A new study published in Science shows that marine heatwaves have caused major economic losses around the world, and researchers say global action needs to be taken to ease the impacts of extreme warming events on ocean life and benefits people derive from the oceans. Professor Thomas Wernberg, from the…

Over lunch, roughly when we'd started considering dessert, I asked Stephenson how that reception feels. He seemed a little chagrined—and he told me a story that made me think he wasn't sure those guys were in on the joke. When he was writing Snow Crash, Stephenson said, he was living…

Former Prime Minister Taro Aso says that he believes global warming has improved the quality of rice in Japan. On Monday, while giving a speech in the Hokkaido city of Otaru for a Liberal Democratic Party candidate, Aso stated that the rice on the island of Hokkaido "has become tastier…

AHRWEILER, Germany — Layers of dried mud on sidewalks, concrete roads turned to gravel and time-worn stone bridges washed away. Three months after this summer’s catastrophic floods in Germany’s Ahrweiler region, there are reminders everywhere of the destruction they wrought. The deluge, which was preceded by three consecutive summers of…