Dire Climate Warning Lands With a Thud on Trump’s Desk
WASHINGTON — A day after the United Nations issued its most urgent call to arms yet for the world to confront the threat of climate change, President Trump boarded Air Continue Reading
Our planet is in crisis. We don’t have time for Trump’s foolishness.
Firefighters monitor a backfire near Ladoga, Calif., in August. (Noah Berger/AP) Here is how to interpret the alarming new United Nations-sponsored report on global warming : We are living in Continue Reading
Exxon Puts Up $1 Million to Campaign for a Carbon Tax
Exxon sees a carbon tax as an alternative to patchwork regulations, putting one cost on all carbon emitters nationwide, eliminating regulatory uncertainty hovering over Exxon’s business in states that might Continue Reading
Campaign group warns EU it will miss aviation emissions target
The EU will miss its 2030 aviation emissions target by almost 100m tonnes if it adopts a new industry-backed standard being rolled out next year, a transport campaigning group has Continue Reading
Insurers act on climate change exposure
First it was fierce storms in northern Europe. Since then there have been wildfires in California, a drought in Australia and more storms, this time in the US and Asia. Continue Reading
World to miss Paris climate targets by wide margin, says UN panel
The world is on track to overshoot the targets of the Paris climate agreement and warm by 3C by the end of the century, a level that would disrupt life Continue Reading
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says Continue Reading
Why Half a Degree of Global Warming Is a Big Deal
The Earth has already warmed 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 19th century. Now, a major new United Nations report has looked at the consequences of jumping to Continue Reading
The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say
The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take “unprecedented” actions to cut their carbon Continue Reading
The climate is changing. Here’s how politics will also change.
A penguin stands on an iceberg in Yankee Harbour, Antarctica, in February. (Reuters) The Oct. 8 release of a U.N. special report on limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius Continue Reading