Apr 30 2024
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed Sunday to “crack on” with delivering her vision following a landslide election victory, after a string of disasters frustrated reform in her first term. Ardern won a historic outright majority in Saturday’s poll […]
Republican zeal carried President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee — Amy Coney Barrett — closer to confirmation Thursday, pushing past Democratic objections and other priorities during the COVID-19 crisis. In the drive to seat her before the upcoming Nov. 3 elections, […]
Celebrities from filmmaker Ava DuVernay to Britain’s Prince William to the Pope himself issued powerful calls last week calling for people to mobilise and unify to confront the climate crisis. Joining the panel of hosts at the live-streamed, TED Countdown […]
Half of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals have died over the past 25 years, scientists said Wednesday, warning that climate change is irreversibly destroying the underwater ecosystem. A study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal found an alarming […]
Arctic summer sea ice melted in 2020 to the second smallest area since records began 42 years ago, US scientists announced Monday, offering further stark evidence of the impact of global warming. Arctic sea ice melts in summer and reforms […]
The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world’s population — 3.1 billion people — new research showed Monday. Despite a sharp decrease in carbon emissions […]
Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” on Monday for refusing to acknowledge global warming’s role in deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, while Trump blamed lax forestry and declared, “I don’t think science knows.” Dozens of […]
