global warming

African officials outlined their priorities for the upcoming U.N. climate summit, including a push to make heavily polluting rich nations compensate poor countries for the environmental damage done to them.

An unexpected deal reached by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to address global warming and could help President Joe Biden come close to meeting his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, experts said on July 28, 2022.

It may be hard to see the connection between heat waves in British Columbia and Britain’s most flammable day since the Second World War, but our world has shrunk, and the 21st-century version is one of close connections and brutal teachings.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, announced modest new steps to combat climate change and promised more robust action to come, saying, “This is an emergency and I will look at it that way.”

A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward on Monday, July 18, 2022, to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water−bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in tinder−dry forests.

With the world reeling from the economic fallout of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, senior officials from 40 countries met on Monday, July 18, 2022, in Berlin for heart−to−heart talks on how to stay focused on fighting climate change and addressing its impact.

“It’s absolutely crazy to stick yourself to the road with superglue,” admits Lina Schinkoethe.

Portugal’s government on Friday, July 8, 2022, declared an eight−day state of alert due to a heightened risk of wildfires, as the drought−stricken country prepares for a heat wave packing temperatures as high as 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit).

Spraying aerosols and sucking carbon out of the air would bring down temperatures, yes. But the unintended consequences of geoengineering could be enormous.

European Union countries reached a deal following hard−fought talks that dragged into early on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, to back stricter climate rules that would eliminate carbon emissions from new cars by 2035.

As a society, we need to acknowledge the tradeoffs of all these options for achieving net-zero and discuss what impacts we will accept.

Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people swelter as the summer’s triple digit temperatures arrive.

Rich countries including the European Union and the United States have pushed back against efforts to put financial help for poor nations suffering the devastating effects of global warming firmly on the agenda for this year’s U.N. climate summit.

U.N. Secretary−General António Guterres warned on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it.

Paleontologist Steve Brusatte believes this is so because smaller mammals are better able to cope with increased temperatures.