• Donald Trump and Elon Musk: 2 disrupters facing a reckoning

    Donald Trump and Elon Musk: 2 disrupters facing a reckoning

    Dec 20, 2022 05:52 PM EDT

    ... corporate policy about how to manage them. Their politics don’t match — Musk’s right-wing and libertarian beliefs come with a devotion to controlling global warming, for example, and Trump’s don’t. Their personalities differ in some respects, too — Musk admits error and even apologizes on occasion; Trump ...

  • UN head says climate plans 'falling woefully short,' urges action to avoid catastrophe

    UN head says climate plans 'falling woefully short,' urges action to avoid catastrophe

    Dec 19, 2022 05:09 PM EDT

    ... far fall short of what's needed to avert catastrophe. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Paris climate accord's goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) "is gasping for breath" as the gap between actual greenhouse gas emissions and the amount ...

  • G7 establishes global club to fight climate change

    G7 establishes global club to fight climate change

    Dec 12, 2022 10:38 PM EDT

    ... global climate targets," the chancellor said. The climate club aims to support the rapid and ambitious implementation of the Paris Agreement, which seeks to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius ((2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the German government. Monday was the seventh anniversary of accord's adoption ...

  • How William and Kate are honoring climate innovators

    How William and Kate are honoring climate innovators

    Dec 05, 2022 09:22 PM EDT

    ... of climate change. Queen Elizabeth and William’s father King Charles were among the earliest high-profile voices drawing attention to environmental issues, long before global warming reached this critical phase. Prince William and Catherine have made the environment, mental health and education the cornerstone of their Royal Foundation’s ...

  • How countries are trying to tackle the plastic pollution problem together

    How countries are trying to tackle the plastic pollution problem together

    Dec 04, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    ... does need to be done, increased urgency and, and looking at the problem a lot like the way that the world has been looking at global warming and greenhouse gas emissions. But there's still more that's being done in a coordinated way now than a few years ago ...

  • NASA cancels plans for costly greenhouse gas monitoring satellite

    NASA cancels plans for costly greenhouse gas monitoring satellite

    Nov 30, 2022 05:48 PM EDT

    ... to have to do it a different way because we don't see this instrument coming together."Monitoring of greenhouse gases, the main cause of global warming, is important on many levels. It can help spot leaks, say of methane, or hold to account companies and countries that have pledged ...

  • The challenge of tracking methane emissions and why they are higher than publicly reported

    The challenge of tracking methane emissions and why they are higher than publicly reported

    Nov 23, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... Methane traps about 80 times more heat during a 20-year lifetime than carbon dioxide. It is responsible for about 30 percent of human-caused global warming. Permian is the largest methane emitting oil and gas basin in the U.S. So, to put this into perspective, there are global ...

  • News Wrap: COP27 nations near deal for climate disaster fund

    News Wrap: COP27 nations near deal for climate disaster fund

    Nov 19, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    ... contribute to the fund but not mandated. European officials threatened to walk away from the talks if the agreement doesn't keep temperature limits on global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. That's what experts say is needed to avoid the most extreme effects of climate change. Frans Timmermans ...

  • UN climate talks poised for deal creating disaster fund for vulnerable nations

    UN climate talks poised for deal creating disaster fund for vulnerable nations

    Nov 19, 2022 03:50 PM EDT

    ... and action sparks criticism at COP27 climate summit The Egyptian package leaves in place a reference to the Paris accords less ambitious goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit)” which scientists say is far too risky. It also doesn’t suggest any new ...

  • China pressured to reduce its carbon emissions at global climate change summit

    China pressured to reduce its carbon emissions at global climate change summit

    Nov 17, 2022 11:45 PM EDT

    ... wind power and electric cars than any other country. And so when climate negotiators try and agree on measures to save the planet and cap global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, all eyes were on number two emitter the U.S. -- that's climate envoy John Kerry on the ...