Greta Thunberg

Image copyrightGetty Images The UNs climate summit has closed amidst cautious praise for its achievements, and bitter condemnation for its failures. On the plus side, more than 60 nations announced they were working on or exploring plans to reduce greenhous…

10. And finally, the best way to boil an egg ... is to not. For his new column on cooking and science, the chef J. Kenji López-Alt set out to find the definitive method. He enlisted 96 volunteers (including the one above) and cooked 700 eggs for what he call…

In the wake of last years coal-fueled climate talks in Poland, Alexandria Villaseñor began a solitary protest in front of the United Nations. She was following in the footsteps of Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, and their solitary strikes quickly built one of th…

In front of a hall of seated diplomats, Greta Thunberg delivered a particularly emotive speech at the New York City headquarters of the United Nations on Sept. 23. Though, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist's address to the U.N. Climate Action Summit w…

UNITED NATIONSOn Monday, Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people filed a potentially world-changing lawsuit. On an abnormally steamy day in New York, when sweat built on the brows of the dark-suited diplomats funneling into the United Nations for a major cli…

Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate change, energy and the environment. I'm Janet Wilson, writing to you from the United Nations in New York with a special early edition. This morning, world leaders will hold a Climate Action Summit.  The …

Tomorrow marks the first day of fall 2019, though youd be forgiven for not noticing in much of the country thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures predicted to extend into October through much of the nation (and, well, almost everywhere almost all the time n…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Locals, hikers and environmental campaigners attended the "funeral march" for the Pizol glacier A Swiss glacier lost to global warming has been commemorated at a memorial service in the Alps. Dozens of people took …

A day after climate strikes convulsed cities across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of young people opting to skip school and take to the streets instead, youth leaders have gathered at the United Nations to demand radical action on climate change. The…

Earther is working with student journalists to cover Fridays climate strikes. This story is part of a series of pieces showing the strike through their eyes. You can see previous coverage here. NEW YORK, NYPicking up where climate strikes around the world le…