Another central discussion at the UNGA: Climate change, with African leaders angling for the UN to declare a global emergency, Thomson Reuters Foundation reports.
September 20, 2019
Today, students from New Delhi to New York are gathering for the largest global climate protests to date, AFP reports.
August 28, 2019
In 2014, NPR reported a rise in chronic kidney disease of unknown origin among young, healthy Central American laborers.
August 19, 2019
July was the hottest month since records began in 1880, according to the latest assessment from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, AP reports.
August 14, 2019
There's no shortage of reminders about the Earth's fate if warming reaches 2 degrees Celsius. But warming is not spread evenly, and swaths of the globe have already reached that threshold or are close to it, a Washington Post analysis of "2C hotspots."
August 8, 2019
Climate change and unprecedented exploitation of earth’s resources are endangering humans’ ability to feed a still-growing global population, according to a UN report released today.
August 6, 2019
The impact of climate change in India now extends to weddings. In rural regions, families of young women are rejecting the proposals of suitors, whose earning prospects as farmers or laborers have become increasingly dim due to drought-ruined crops and dry reservoirs. “…
August 5, 2019
Scientists buffeted by climate change denial and vaccine resistance, take heart: Americans' confidence in scientists is rising, a new Pew Research Center survey shows.
July 25, 2019
Previous fluctuations in the Earth’s climate pale in comparison to what we’re seeing now, a new study published yesterday in Nature confirms.
July 5, 2019
The polar caps are warming 2X faster than middle latitudes. Remote villages like Quinhagak in southwestern Alaska are in crisis and may be “canaries in the collective coal mine” for the globe. Quinhagak loses land yearly to erosion, storm surge and tundra thaw. Livelihoods…