Donald Trump’s running mate is breaking with the Republican nominee’s claim that climate change is not the result of human activity. Vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Tuesday “there’s no question” that human activity affects both the climate and the environment. At Monday’s presidential ...
A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years. As part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, ...
The first anniversary of the adoption of the sustainable development goals is an opportunity to celebrate all achievements made and to do more to make SDGs a reality.
Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second-lowest level since scientists started to monitor it by satellite, with scientists saying it is another ominous signal of global warming. The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado said the sea ice reached its ...
The last gasoline-powered car will have to be sold by about 2035 to put the world on track to limit global warming to the most stringent goal set by world leaders last year, a study said on Thursday. The report, by a Climate Action ...
An amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out hydrofluorocarbons could be a boon for climate-change mitigation.
For better or worse, humans are now in charge of the entire planet.
Typhoons that slam into Japan have gotten considerably stronger since the 1970s. Is man-made global warming to blame?
China’s parliament on Saturday ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, said Xinhua, the state news agency, which could help put the pact into force by as early as the end of the year. The standing committee of China’s National People’s Congress voted to ...
President Barack Obama on Thursday is set to visit Midway Atoll, the remote coral reef that serves as a reminder of both modern global climate challenges and the dominance the United States has held in the Pacific since its World War II victory there. ...
The seafloor is home to priceless mineral deposits, but mining them could wreak havoc on the marine environment.
Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia’s remote north have died, scientists said, with climate change the likely cause. Some 7,000 hectares, or 9 percent of the mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, perished in just one month according to researchers from Australia’s James ...
