Greta Thunberg

By Molly Taft This fall, teen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will be touring the United States, attending two different climate summits in New York and Brazil to speak with world leaders. But the hardest part of the trip may not be wrangling foreign…

ZURICH (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) expects passenger numbers to rise about 4% this year, its chief executive told a newspaper, playing down talk that public support for teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg might be curbing air travel. …

Greta Thunberg (3rdL behind the banner), the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, marches during the "Global Strike For Future" movement on a global day of student protests aiming to spark world leaders into action on climate change on May 24, 2019 AFP/Gett…

In the summer of 2015the warmest year on record at the timeit was the literal heat that got to Meg Ruttan Walker, a 37-year-old former teacher in Kitchener, Ontario. "Summers have been stressful to me since having my son," said Ruttan Walker, who is now an en…

Congresswoman and force of nature Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and student activist and force of nature Greta "Extinction Rebellion" Thunberg conducted a videoconference to meet one another and talk tactics for saving the world from dying in its own waste-gases; …

Late last month, US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and climate activist Greta Thunberg had a lengthy conversation over video chat about leadership, climate change, politics, and activism. GT: Many people, especially in the US, see countries like Swede…

PHOTO: REUTERS PARIS: France announced Tuesday it would impose new taxes on plane tickets of up to 18 per flight, joining other EU states seeking to limit the environmental impact of air travel. The government said that the funds from tickets for flights o…

The biggest surprise of an otherwise predictable OPEC meeting on July 1st and 2nd came during the press conference of the second day, which included the non-OPEC members; i.e., Russia. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih, who usually dominates the press con…

The worlds largest oil-producing nations have a few words for a five-foot-nothing Swedish schoolgirl: back off. Speaking at the OPEC annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, the groups general secretary, Mohammed Barkindo, spoke out about the growing mass mobiliza…

Another major earthquake rocks buildings and baseball stadiums across Southern California.  The 7.1 magnitude quake, the second big tremblor in two days, caused damage, rockslides, and power outages in the Ridgecrest area. For our West Coast readers: how to…