Italy calls fast-melting glacier in Mont Blanc range “an alarm” that can’t be ignored
A fast-moving Italian glacier is melting quickly, threatening a picturesque valley near the Alpine town of Courmayeur and prompting the mayor to close down a mountain road.
Climate change: UN panel signals red alert on ‘Blue Planet’
Climate change is devastating our seas and frozen regions as never before, a major new United Nations report warns.
Investors make unprecedented commitment to net zero emissions
In one of the boldest actions yet by the world’s largest investors to decarbonize the global economy, an alliance of the world’s largest pension funds and insurers – responsible for directing more than US$ 2.4 trillion in investments – has today committed to carbon-neutral investment portfolios by 2050.
U.N. Climate Summit Sets Stage For New National Emissions Promises
Leaders from nearly 200 countries are attending a special United Nations Summit on climate change today as they face increasing pressure from citizens around the world to cut global greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
Climate change: Impacts ‘accelerating’ as leaders gather for UN talks
The data, compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), says the five-year period from 2014 to 2019 is the warmest on record. Sea-level rise has accelerated significantly over the same period, as CO2 emissions have hit new highs.
How big was the global climate strike? 4 million people, activists estimate.
Friday was a truly historic day for the potent new social movement committed to sounding a global alarm about the climate crisis. The Global Climate Strikes, inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, age 16, may end up being the largest mass protest for action on global warming in history.
Global climate strikes start Friday. Here’s what you should know
On Friday, people all over the world are expected to walk out of their schools and workplaces to demand action to address the global climate crisis.
The silenced: meet the climate whistleblowers muzzled by Trump
Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science – and why they won’t stay quiet…
World ‘gravely’ unprepared for effects of climate crisis – report
Trillions of dollars needed to avoid ‘climate apartheid’ but this is less than cost of inaction.