Greta Thunberg

A selection of striking news photographs from around the world this week. Image copyright AFP Image caption This aerial photo shows excavators at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients following an outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan in China's Hubei province. China is rushing to…

Carbon dioxide. We should stop emitting it. Scientists say it. The United Nations says it. Greta Thunberg says it. Even big finance corporations say it (even if theyre actively impeding doing it). And yet here we are on the brink of a year that will see one…

world Vanessa Nakate told BuzzFeed News she was heartbroken to see websites use a photo featuring four white activists but not her. Posted on January 24, 2020, at 12:01 p.m. ET Pierre-philippe Marcou / Getty Images Vanessa Nakate LONDON — Vanessa Nakate is a 23-year-old climate activist from Uganda who…

Greta Thunberg joined fellow activists in a climate strike Friday, capping off her time in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, where she continued her push for climate change action. Earlier that day, Thunberg once again called out world and bu…

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin got the economics all wrong in his public put-down of climate activist Greta Thunberg. A guy who still insists that the 2017 tax cut “will pay for itself” should not be lecturing anyone about economics, but there’s something about being in Davos that brings out the…

Photo: GettyDavos season is a beautiful time of year when rich, powerful people gather in a Swiss mountain town to talk about Big Ideas. Ensconced in this familiar backslapping environment, they also occasionally tell us how they really feel about some of the most pressing issues facing humanity like rising…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin suggested that Greta Thunberg isn’t the best person to give advice on economic issues related to climate change — at least not until she goes to college. At a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mnuchin …

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.Not everyone was a fan of climate activist Greta Thunberg’s passionate speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this week. On Thursday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin chided the 17-year old and her demand for a…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said teen climate activist Greta Thunberg can talk about divesting from fossil fuels "after she goes and studies economics." Mnuchin made the comments at a press gaggle Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, where world and bus…

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is in no position to suggest that governments and companies need to cut back dramatically on their use of fossil fuels until she goes to college and comes out with an economics degree. Read More