Climate

Sunday marks the anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, when countries pledged to cut down their emissions. Fifteen years have passed and last year, greenhouse gas emissions were the highest they've ever been.

Argentina's national weather service clocked the warmest temperature recorded for continental Antarctica since monitoring began on February 6, when thermometers hit 18.3 C.

Environmental activists have called for Federer to cut ties with a company that has invested millions in fossil fuel.

The move is usually reserved for severe human rights violations.

Nitrous oxide is 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, although it is found in the atmosphere in smaller quantities.

The final decades of the Assyrian Empire (912-609 BCE) were marked by political instability and conflict, but new research suggests droughts and bad harvests played a part in the empire's decline.

The unusual phenomenon was generated by thunderstorms in the Australian region.

A plan was announced on Wednesday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move the marathon and race-walking events at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo due to concerns of extreme heat.

Hagel explained that insufficient climate change data is "a real and present threat to our national security," citing the danger abnormal storms pose to the military.

Photos of the effigy showed it had two braids like Thunberg and it reportedly had a sign stating, "Greta is your God." 

The Trump administration justified the expansion of drilling in the Arctic ircle, saying "there is not a climate crisis."

Sparked by recent reactions to the 16-year-old climate activist's speech to the United Nations General Assembly, this "helpline" was created by comedians Mark Humphries and Evan Williams.

Greta Thunberg has continued to grow in popularity following her speech regarding climate change at the United Nations General Assembly. Today, Greta took to twitter to address her "haters."

"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future," President Trump tweeted about Thunberg.

"You are failing us," Thunberg said in a speech before the United Nations before staring down Trump. "But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal."

The woman on top of the van remains silent and clinging to the vehicle as it is towed away by the police truck. 

The intense wildfires that are hitting the region during this year's season are turning the sky a bloody red.

Researchers from The Europlanet Society presented a study on Venus' climate history at the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 on Sunday.

Ahead of the UN Summit on climate change next week, teenage activist Greta Thunberg addressed Washington lawmakers — and told them their actions aren't good enough.

"There are many many reasons to be concerned…but a risk to the world's oxygen supply is not one of them," Allison Mills from Michigan Technological University told Newsweek.

Warmer conditions on Ancient Mars increase the possibility that life developed there, according to researchers.

Biden received a D- grade, ranking only above John Hickenlooper, Bill Weld and President Donald Trump.

The infrastructure bill may be an opportunity to take meaningful steps forward on climate action, already under this administration

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Joe Biden's "middle ground approach" to climate change "unacceptable."

Despite the crisis confronting our planet, environmental activism has become a dangerous activity. The latest threat is lawsuits.

The Trump administration tried to remove the phrase "climate change" from an international statement on Arctic policy while Senate Republicans refused to take up a bill on the Paris climate agreement.

"It's easy for politicians to simply acknowledge that climate change exists. What's harder is a real plan that measures up to the urgency of the crisis," said Greenpeace.

The study noted that more than 6.2 million people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and 2.5 million children with asthma lived in counties with unhealthy air.

A new report shows strong regional differences in the amount of concern Americans have for global warming.

He also received accepted six gifted copies of "The Lorax."