Australia pushes Pacific islands to drop calls for action based on Paris climate goals
Australia stepped up efforts on Wednesday to convince Pacific Islands to abandon calls for tougher climate change goals as Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrived on the tiny island of Tuvalu. The low-lying Pacific islands are on the frontline of global climate change, battling rising sea ...
Climate deniers get more media play than scientists, study finds
Climate deniers have garnered far more media attention than prominent climate scientists over the years, fueling public confusion and slowing the response to global warming, researchers reported Tuesday. From 2000 through 2016, hundreds of academics, business people and politicians who doubted global warming or attributed ...
Greta Thunberg's sailing adventure to the U.S. no pleasure cruise
Greta Thunberg's two-week voyage to the United States will be no pleasure cruise. The 16-year-old climate change activist who has inspired student protests around the world will leave Plymouth, England, later this week bound for New York in a high-tech but decidedly low-comfort sailboat. Highlighting the ...
Australia offers $340 million in climate funding to Pacific islands
Australia on Tuesday announced a 500 million Australian dollar ($340 million) climate change package for Pacific island countries, which have been increasingly vocal in demanding their powerful neighbor curb its carbon emissions. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the funding, drawn from Australia's existing international aid ...
Ecological land grab pits food vs. fuel vs. forests, but there's not enough to go around
The overlapping crises of climate change, mass species extinction and an unsustainable global food system are on a collision course toward what might best be called an ecological land grab. Coping with each of these problems will require a different way of using of Earth's ...
Think the European heatwave was bad? Climate already hitting key tipping points
"Shall we all just kill ourselves?" It was an odd title for a comedy night, but British stand-up Carl Donnelly has chosen an environmental theme with impeccable timing. With temperature records tumbling daily in last week's European heat wave, a crowd in an east London bar ...
Most of world's biggest-polluting firms not on track for climate goals, study finds
Only 1 in 8 of the world's most-polluting companies are on track to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with global temperature goals, a study funded by investors with $14 trillion under management found on Wednesday. The findings underscore the gulf between commitments made ...
Countries failing on climate face 'Green political muscle,' OECD chief says
Politicians who fail to act on climate change will pay the price electorally, the head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a climate speech on Wednesday, criticizing some governments for going the wrong way. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria called out ...
Trump's coal-rich U.N. choice to step back from some climate talks
President Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to the United Nations promised Wednesday to allow climate diplomacy to move forward despite her family's fortune in coal. Kelly Craft, at a Senate hearing to confirm her for the high-profile post that has been vacant for nearly half ...
Sweden's Greta Thunberg demands climate action on day of global school strikes
Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg urged European politicians on Friday to focus on a climate crisis instead of "bickering," as children walked out of classes around the world to back her demands for urgent action to curb carbon emissions. Thunberg, 16, said the threat of ...
'Slow-motion disaster' as Philippine coastal cities get that sinking feeling
When Mary Ann San Jose moved to Sitio Pariahan more than two decades ago, she could walk to the local chapel. Today, reaching it requires a swim. The main culprit is catastrophic subsidence caused by groundwater being pumped out from below, often via unregulated wells ...
Outback farmers lead the charge as climate heats up Australia election
As Australians head to the polls this week after the country's hottest-ever summer, Outback farmers — walloped by epic fires, floods and heat waves — are leading the fight against climate change and making it one of the election's key issues. With one of the ...
