Global World News How Is The World Doing On Climate Change Not Great

UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ... Read More

Coral reef collapse drives world across first climate tipping point

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ... Read More

Is Climate Change an Existential Threat?

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ... Read More

Climate change is not among top five global problems, Chris Wright says

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that climate change is far from being one of the biggest problems the world is facing right now. Wright’s remarks are the latest attempt from the Trump ... Read More

How Six World Leaders Are Confronting Climate Change

The leaders told us how they are facing a warming planet in a world where international collaboration on climate change is fraying. By David Gelles I host the Climate Forward newsletter and live event ... Read More

Blockbuster sea level study may turn climate change orthodoxy on its head

Global sea levels have not continued to rise at the rates predicted by many scientists — and there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to any such acceleration, a new first-of-its-kind ... Read More

Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally

Sept 23 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his ... Read More

Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.” By Lisa Friedman Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday defended the Trump ... Read More

Climate change not a death sentence for humanity, Bill Gates says

Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates argued that while global warming is grave, especially for people in the poorest countries, it is no longer a death sentence for humanity. Gates, in his blog ... Read More