Greta Thunberg

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Climate change activists in Latin America rallied for action on global warming Friday, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hold demonstrations across the world. In Rio de Janeiro, a small group of students gathered outsid…

Around 1.4 million young people worldwide are expected to ditch school on Friday to march for the environment and urge politicians to take more decisive actions to tackle climate change. Pupils and students from Australia and New Zealand kicked off the now w…

In a shift since the last European Parliament elections, mainstream parties have adopted climate change as a rallying cryspurred in part by a wave of student strikes. With the "Fridays for Future" protest due to continue in cities across the continent on the…

Thousands of young protesters in Australia and New Zealand have kicked off the second wave of global school strikes demanding urgent action on climate change. Organisers expect more than a million students to join rallies on Friday in some 120 countries dema…

Faith Osier speaks during Fellows Session at TED2018 – The Age of Amazement in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED The TED community is brimming with new projects and updates. Below, a few highlights. Malaria vaccine begins wide-scale testing in Mal…

Björks Cornucopia is being billed as her most elaborate staged concert to date. It lives up to the tagline, and then some. The site-specific project takes place at the Shed, a cavernous performance complex in New Yorks brand spanking new Hudson Yards. The lu…

It was framed as "the climate election," but last week Australia returned a government with climate policies that make the task of building a zero-emissions, safe climate Australia even harder. This result comes at a time when international studies are raisi…

A Swedish girl who refused to join her classmates in skipping school for the sake of the climate has ended up being labelled as a "climate denier", which her mother described as "mass psychosis".A high-school pupil who refused to attend a so-called "school st…

Fifty percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are produced by the richest 10 percent of the world's population. This represents the real ecological scandal (and danger) of our age: the fact that most of the worlds worst polluters think they are on the rig…

We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue, said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The phrase climate change, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when wh…