Global Warming

Extreme events all over the world were marked by the influence of climate change in 2018: wildfires in California, heat waves in Europe and Asia, and record-low sea ice in the Arctic. That’s according to an annual special report released yesterday in the Bul…

By Valerie Volcovici and Jake Spring MADRID (Reuters) - A future U.S. government will have to rebuild relations with China to revive international efforts to combat climate change, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is running for president, said o…

* Climate measures slowed by absence of US leadership -Kerry * Former US top diplomat helped broker Paris agreement * Trump has started process of quitting climate accord By Valerie Volcovici MADRID, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The world's richest nations are fail…

Image copyrightIUCN Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish. That's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN. While nutrient run-off ha…

Cleaner air can go a long way in saving lives, according to a new report out Friday. It found that policies and laws aimed at curbing emissions are often linked to reductions in hospitalizations, premature births, and deaths in just a few weeks after their en…

By Umberto Bacchi TBILISI, Dec 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Oil-rich Azerbaijan planted more than half a million trees on Friday to celebrate a 14th century poet, an initiative the government said would help tackle climate change but some environmental a…

According to a much-debated geo-engineering approach, both sea-ice retreat and global warming could be slowed by using millions of wind-powered pumps, drifting in the sea ice, to promote ice formation during the Arctic winter. AWI researchers have now, for th…

Lawyers with the environmental legal nonprofit ClientEarth filed a groundbreaking complaint against BP for greenwashing in their ads. Theyre also calling for a ban on all fossil fuel ads, unless they come with a tobacco-style health warning about the dangers …

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Norwegian research ship Lance is about two days' trek from the explorers Two explorers are short of food and battling strong winds after trekking hundreds of miles at the North Pole, but they hope to reach safety soon. …

It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here. Dr. James Hansen Sounds like a comment overheard in Madrid this week, where the U.N. is yet again huddling to discuss the climate crisis. No…