Chinese authorities have ordered some 2,100 highly polluting factories to shut down in attempt to ease the hazardous levels of smog currently chocking parts of the country, AFP reported Dec. Continue Reading
A cartoon circulating on Twitter carries a warning for the oil industry. There’s Joe Camel, retired tobacco spokes-animal, suave as ever in a tuxedo, cigarette dangling from his smiling snout. Continue Reading
The Republican-controlled House Tuesday approved a pair of measures blocking federal rules to cut power-plant emissions , a symbolic move aimed at sowing doubt about President Barack Obama’s climate agenda Continue Reading
Ukraine’s 2016 wheat crop is now sailing into uncharted waters given both the significantly missed planting target and a record percentage of crops in poor condition. Ukraine, the world’s sixth-largest Continue Reading
(Michelle Patron writer is a former energy and climate advisor to President Barack Obama. The opinions expressed here are those of the author.) Over the next two weeks countries from Continue Reading
President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to support small island nations threatened by climate change, saying that efforts to stem global warming cannot serve only the interests of the most powerful. Continue Reading
The small island nations that dot the Pacific are aware they exist on the periphery of many geopolitical calculations. They are also among those most at risk of being flooded Continue Reading
Heads of state and big-name billionaires opened the Paris climate summit with a bang on Monday, promising billions of dollars to develop new green technology to solve a key sticking Continue Reading
Linber Anej waded out in low tide to haul concrete chunks and metal scraps to shore and rebuild the makeshift sea wall in front of his home. The temporary barrier Continue Reading
The capitals of the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog on Monday as climate change talks began in Paris , where leaders Continue Reading
