Yesterday, Extinction Rebellion met with Sir Michael Dixon, director of the Natural History Museum, and his senior staff to ask them to: cancel the Petroleum Group dinner they're hosting on Thursday 20 June, declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency and cut any and all ties with the fossil fuel industry, ...
Emissions need to be halved by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but temperatures are on track to reach double that by the end of the century even if countries' current plans are fully implemented, research by scientists shows. A group of European researchers, Climate Action Tracker, tracks ...
a “declaration of war against the NGOs who are saving lives at sea”
Data collected from the submarines's first expedition will help climate scientists build more accurate predictions of the effects of climate change on rising sea levels
Between 2001 to 2015, 160 million hectares of forest were lost in the tropics due to human activities
Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing was "essential" to stem global warming, his clearest statement to date in support of the practice. In an address to energy executives at the end of a two-day meeting, he also called for "open, transparent, science-based and standardised" reporting of climate risk ...
U.S. President Donald Trump lauded his own diplomacy on Thursday with royalty and foreign leaders, but mistakenly cast the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, as the "Prince of Whales". "I meet and talk to 'foreign governments' every day. I just met with the Queen of England (U.K.), the ...
Ancient pots from Chinese tombs reveal early use of cannabis as a drug
The greenhouse gas is created when pollutants from cars and factories react with sunlight