Global Warming

Expectations for a climate breakthrough in Madrid were never high, but even the lowest ones were not met. The Madrid conference, known as COP25, ended on Sunday afternoon, two days late, after marathon negotiating sessions among almost 200 countries made hal…

By Matthew Green and Jake Spring MADRID (Reuters) - A handful of major states resisted pressure on Sunday to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a U.N. climate summit ground to a close, angering smaller countries and a growing protest movement that i…

A UN climate summit in Madrid risked failing Saturday after all-night negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages.

Image copyrightGetty Images UN climate talks appear to be in trouble as they head into extra time. Fault lines have re-appeared between major emitters and small island states, with one delegate describing a new draft text as "totally unacceptable". Alden M…

(MADRID) — Officials from almost 200 countries scrambled Friday to reach an agreement at a U.N. climate meeting in Madrid amid growing concerns that key issues may be postponed for another year. With the prospect of overtime looming, negotiators were poring …

Abandoning meat isnt easy. Believe me: I ate a beefy-ass bolognese for lunch yesterday and later munched on some chicken wings. Unfortunately, the meat industry is a growing source of carbon pollution, and continuing to let meat consumption grow could eat up …

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Island nations and poor coastal countries facing the severest effects of climate change offer a “moral call to the rest of the world” to act now, former U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday. “For those of you who are... experi…

EverytimeGretaThunbergspeaks, I have to fight tears. The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist stood on the main stage at the international climate talks ongoing in Madrid Wednesday and didnt go on about personal stories or struggles. Instead, she stuck to the…

Around 400 million people would be exposed to coastal flooding every year by the end of the century if Greenland continues to lose ice at its current rate, scientists have warned. That is 40 million more than the numbers predicted by the Intergovernmental Pa…

Greenland's ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the irreversible impacts of the climate emergency much closer. Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times f…