World Nov 05 Friday is youth day at COP26. They fear they’re not being heard Even on a day dedicated to young people, the midday highlights were a speech by 73-year-old former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and a news conference by 77-year-old John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy.
World Nov 01 Activists protest pace of climate action at COP26 Youth campaigners from several countries marched on the opposite bank of the River Clyde from where the U.N. climate summit, known as COP26, was being held, holding banners with slogans such as “We are watching you.”…
World Nov 01 WATCH: Biden speaks at COP26 climate summit in Glasgow Scores of world leaders will traipse to the podium Monday and Tuesday at crucial international climate talks in Scotland and talk about what their country is going to do about the threat of global warming.
World Sep 22 WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly – Day 3 At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the U.N.’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all U.N. peacekeeping operations.
World Sep 22 China, U.S. unveil separate big steps to fight climate change The two nations are key to success of upcoming climate negotiations in less than six weeks. A joint US-China agreement paved the way for the historic 2015 Paris accord.
World Aug 09 Climate change report is ‘a code red for humanity,’ U.N. warns Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a new report.
Science Jun 07 Carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached 50% higher than when the industrial age began. And the average rate of increase is faster than ever, scientists say.
Health Jun 02 Science chief wants next pandemic vaccine ready in 100 days Eric Lander tells The Associated Press in his first interview since he was sworn in that he's pushing for better preparedness for the next pandemic.
Science May 31 Climate change responsible for 37% of global heat deaths, new study says The study is one of the first to do a global accounting of the toll of climate change, and it only looks at a fraction of the deaths from warming.
Science Apr 28 Glaciers are melting faster than they did 15 years ago, study shows Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers are losing more than 328 billion tons of ice and snow per year since 2015, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature.